Stability of stratified flow of large depth over finite-amplitude topography

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 320, Issue , 1996, Pages 369-394

  Prasad, Dilip ^a   Ramirez, Jaime ^a   Akylas, T R ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ASYMPTOTIC THEORY; BOUSSINESQ DENSITY STRATIFIED FLUID; BRUNT-VAISALA FREQUENCY; HYDROSTATIC LIMIT; LONG STEADY FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

STABILITY; STRATIFIED FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030209262     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096007574     Document Type: Article

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