Stratification effects on the stability of columnar vortices on the f-plane

DOI10.1017/S0022112097007726zbMath0915.76032OpenAlexW2123576273MaRDI QIDQ4398557

P. G. Potylitsin, W. R. Peltier

Publication date: 23 June 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112097007726

zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq approximationGalerkin expansionthree-dimensional perturbationsdensity stratificationlinearized perturbation equationsGalerkin basisKelvin-Helmholtz vortices in shearKida-like vortices in strain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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