Stability boundaries and sufficient stability conditions for stably stratified, monotonic shear flows
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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2016.03.044zbMATH Open1360.76091arXiv1512.00963OpenAlexW2266391284MaRDI QIDQ526379FDOQ526379
Publication date: 10 May 2017
Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Linear stability of inviscid, parallel, and stably stratified shear flow is studied under the assumption of smooth strictly monotonic profiles of shear flow and density, so that the local Richardson number is positive everywhere. The marginally unstable modes are systematically found by solving a one-parameter family of regular Sturm-Liouville problems, which can determine the stability boundaries more efficiently than solving the Taylor-Goldstein equation directly. By arguing for the non-existence of a marginally unstable mode, we derive new sufficient conditions for stability, which generalize the Rayleigh-Fj{o}rtoft criterion for unstratified shear flows.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00963
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