Linear and nonlinear barotropic instability of geostrophic shear layers

DOI10.1017/S0022112091001647MaRDI QIDQ5749044zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 1991

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

zbMATH Keywords

linear instabilitygeostrophic shear layerinitially small-amplitude wavesstrongly nonlinear evolution of unstable waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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