The Kelvin–Helmholtz instability for surface waves in currents of uniform vorticity

DOI10.1063/1.858840zbMath0781.76031OpenAlexW1995288819MaRDI QIDQ4271355

Iver Brevik, H. Sund

Publication date: 20 December 1993

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858840

zbMATH Keywords

dispersion equationquartic equationfinite water depthlinear monochromatic water waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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Cites Work

• The changes in amplitude of short gravity waves on steady non-uniform currents
• Stability of the parallel flow of a fluid over a slightly heavier fluid
• Waves generated by shear layer instabilities
• The role of negative energy waves in some instabilities of parallel flows

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