Shear instabilities in arrested salt-wedge flows

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 24, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 173-182

  Yonemitsu, Noboru ^a   Swaters, Gordon E ^b   Rajaratnam, Nallamuthu ^b   Lawrence, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTABILITY; INTERFACES-FLUID; MIXING; SALT; SHEAR LAYERS; WEDGE;

KELVIN-HELMOLTZ INSTABILITY; MIXING PROCESSES; ONE- SIDEDNESS; SALT WEDGES;

EID: 0029657508     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-0265(95)00444-0     Document Type: Article

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