Wave breaking in a compressible atmosphere

DOI10.1080/03091928808208869zbMath0658.76024OpenAlexW1994290906WikidataQ126256038 ScholiaQ126256038MaRDI QIDQ3807752

William Blumen

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928808208869

zbMATH Keywords

convective instabilitymountain wavesbreaking wavesnonlinear wave dynamicsconservation principlesemi-infinite atmosphereadiabatic expansionfinite-amplitude gravity wavesinviscid, adiabatic, two-dimensional, steady-state model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Geophysics (86A99)

Cites Work

• The effects of terrain shape on nonlinear hydrostatic mountain waves
• A transformation for non-homentropic flows, with an application to large-amplitude motion in the atmosphere
• Lee waves in a stratified flow. Part 4. Perturbation approximations
• Large-amplitude motion of a compressible fluid in the atmosphere

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