On the equilibration of a symmetrically unstable front via a secondary shear instability

DOI10.1017/S0022112008005272zbMath1165.76336MaRDI QIDQ3620663

Raffaele Ferrari, J. R. Taylor

Publication date: 14 April 2009

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Cites Work

• The nonlinear evolution of zonally symmetric equatorial inertial instability

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