Optimal perturbation growth on a breaking internal gravity wave

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.603MaRDI QIDQ5152467zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeremy P. Parker, Christopher J. Howland, C. P. Caulfield, Rich R. Kerswell

Publication date 24 September 2021

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.603

zbMATH Keywords

convective instabilityenergy growthshear-flow instabilitystratified flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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