Secondary circulations in Holmboe waves

DOI10.1063/1.2210504zbMATH Open1185.76542OpenAlexW2040147616MaRDI QIDQ5756050FDOQ5756050

W. D. Smyth

Publication date: 15 August 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/ef6b8b438ae3ea6179b9885fd1733b1ab82e3d24

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Transition to turbulence (76F06) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Waves for incompressible viscous fluids (76D33)

Cites Work

• On the mechanism of shear flow instabilities
• The stability of a sheared density interface
• Three-dimensionalization of barotropic vortices on the f-plane
• Entrainment and mixing in stratified shear flows
• The Kelvin–Helmholtz to Holmboe instability transition in stratified exchange flows
• Holmboe's instability in exchange flows
• Multiple linear instability of layered stratified shear flow
• Symmetric and nonsymmetric Holmboe instabilities in an inviscid flow

Cited In (6)

• Symmetric Holmboe instabilities in a laboratory exchange flow
• Stratified shear flow instabilities at large Richardson numbers
• Hairpin vortices and highly elongated flow structures in a stably stratified shear layer
• Holmboe wave fields in simulation and experiment
• Turbulent mixing due to the Holmboe wave instability at high Reynolds number
• The evolution of coherent vortical structures in increasingly turbulent stratified shear layers

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