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 instabilitystratified flowenergy growthshear-flow instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• On the role of optimal perturbations in the instability of monochromatic gravity waves
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• A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex

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