Instability and breakdown of internal gravity waves. I. Linear stability analysis

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3271-3287

  Lombard, Peter N ^a   Riley, James J ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; INSTABILITY;

EID: 0030435632     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869117     Document Type: Article

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