The effect of small viscosity and diffusivity on the marginal stability of stably stratified shear flows

DOI10.1017/jfm.2013.378zbMath1294.76117OpenAlexW1994574118MaRDI QIDQ2878305

S. A. Thorpe, Lin Li, William D. Smyth

Publication date: 29 August 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2013.378

zbMATH Keywords

instabilitystratified turbulencegeophysical and geological flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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