Numerical simulation of shear-induced instabilities in internal solitary waves

DOI10.1017/jfm.2011.261zbMath1241.76100OpenAlexW2022125877MaRDI QIDQ2891879

Stuart E. King, Magda Carr, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 15 June 2012

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3054

zbMATH Keywords

solitary wavesinternal wavesstratified flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55)

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