The instability and breaking of long internal waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112005006798zbMath1081.76516OpenAlexW2151308867MaRDI QIDQ3368727

Cary D. Troy, Jeffrey R. Koseff

Publication date: 8 February 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112005006798

zbMATH Keywords

critical Richardson numberKelvin-Helmholtz shear instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55)

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