Rotating rayleigh-taylor instability as a model of sinking events in the ocean

DOI10.1080/03091928108243684zbMath0483.76053OpenAlexW2069529964WikidataQ114640731 ScholiaQ114640731MaRDI QIDQ3942607

J. A. Whitehead, Michael K. Davey

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928108243684

zbMATH Keywords

growth rateslinearizationdispersion curvesRayleigh-Taylor instabilityfinite depthinfinitesimal disturbancesoverturningdisturbances of all wavelengthslimit of very long and very short wavesmodel of sinking eventsrapid cooling of an ocean surface layerRossby radius of deformationstatically unstable two-layer fluid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

Cites Work

• THE CHARACTER OF THE EQUILIBRIUM OF A HEAVY, VISCOUS, INCOMPRESSIBLE, ROTATING FLUID OF VARIABLE DENSITY

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