Frontal instabilities and waves in a differentially rotating fluid

DOI10.1017/jfm.2011.338zbMath1241.76020OpenAlexW2044866370MaRDI QIDQ2893255

Hélène Scolan, Jonathan Gula, Jan Bert Flór

Publication date: 26 June 2012

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2011.338

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-geostrophic flowswaves in rotating fluidsbaroclinic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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