Large-scale Langmuir circulation and double-diffusive convection: evolution equations and flow transitions

DOI10.1017/S0022112094002521zbMath0885.76030OpenAlexW1996924511MaRDI QIDQ5689308

Stephen M. Cox, Sidney Leibovich

Publication date: 11 February 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112094002521

zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq approximationfree convectionenergy equationoscillatory instabilitylarge aspect ratiodirect bifurcationevolution equations are derivedsmall fluxesstable finite-amplitude travelling wavesstably stratified waterwave-filtered Navier-Stokes equations

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• Long-scale thermodiffusional convection

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