Convectively induced shear instability in large amplitude internal solitary waves

DOI10.1063/1.3030947zbMath1182.76120MaRDI QIDQ5304340

Peter Davies, Atle Jensen, Magda Carr, John Grue, Dorian Fructus

Publication date: 18 March 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3395

zbMATH Keywords

convection; solitons; shear flow; flow instability; stratified flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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