Symmetric Holmboe instabilities in a laboratory exchange flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112009007733zbMath1183.76053OpenAlexW2150673628MaRDI QIDQ5306103

Edmund W. Tedford, Gregory A. Lawrence, Rik Pieters

Publication date: 29 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112009007733

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Cites Work

• Holmboe's instability in exchange flows
• Analytical solution for maximal frictional two-layer exchange flow
• On Holmboe’s instability for smooth shear and density profiles
• Interaction of Water Waves and Currents
• The stability of a sheared density interface
• The Kelvin–Helmholtz to Holmboe instability transition in stratified exchange flows
• Evolution and mixing of asymmetric Holmboe instabilities
• Secondary circulations in Holmboe waves

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