Dynamical aspects of shallow sea fronts

DOI10.1098/rsta.1981.0183zbMath0495.76023OpenAlexW2009489441MaRDI QIDQ3959616

John W. Loder, C. J. R. Garrett

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1981.0183

zbMATH Keywords

similarity solutionswave fronttwo dimensionaleffect of internal frictionsmall Rossby and Ekman numbersstatified fluidVaeisaela and Coriolis frequencies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Diffusion and convection (76R99)

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