Two-dimensional secondary instabilities in a strongly stratified shear layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112095002072zbMath0867.76026OpenAlexW2060442726MaRDI QIDQ4879246

Chantal Staquet

Publication date: 4 August 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112095002072

zbMATH Keywords

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilitystagnation pointpseudo-spectral methoddensity gradientbaroclinic layersnear core instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Cites Work

• A numerical study of vorticity layers in a two-dimensional stratified shear flow
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• Development of singular solutions to the axisymmetric Euler equations
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