Rotating free-shear flows. I. Linear stability analysis

DOI10.1063/1.858736zbMath0791.76031OpenAlexW2051871656MaRDI QIDQ4282433

Olivier Métais, Shinichiro Yanase, Carlos Flores, James J. Riley

Publication date: 17 April 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858736

zbMATH Keywords

mixing layerscyclonic rotationplanar wakesstrong anticyclonic rotationweaker anticyclonic rotation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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