The salt-finger zone

DOI10.1017/S0022112087002490zbMath0639.76050MaRDI QIDQ3780624

George Veronis, Louis N. Howard

Publication date: 1987

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

zbMATH Keywords

Hele-Shaw cellboundary-layer analysissalinityparametric restrictionszero-order solutionbuoyancy-layer scaleinfinitely long fully developed salt fingers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• The stability of long, steady, two-dimensional salt fingers
• Collective instability of salt fingers