Taylor vortices and the Goldreich—Schubert instability

DOI10.1080/03091928008243664zbMath0452.76018OpenAlexW2024927172WikidataQ114640778 ScholiaQ114640778MaRDI QIDQ3899699

Gordon Moir, D. G. Economides

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928008243664

zbMATH Keywords

dispersion relationCouette flowTaylor vorticeslinearized perturbation equationsmoderate Prandtl numberBoussinesq and the narrow- gap approximationGoldreich-Schubert instabilityinfinite coaxial rotating cylinders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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