Three-dimensionalization of barotropic vortices on the f-plane

DOI10.1017/S0022112094000753zbMath0804.76040OpenAlexW2132010654MaRDI QIDQ4304663

W. R. Peltier, William D. Smyth

Publication date: 30 August 1994

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112094000753

zbMATH Keywords

secondary instabilityshear layervortex street

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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