The quasi-three-dimensional instability of an elliptical vortex subject to a strain field in a rotating stratified fluid

Fluid Dynamics Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 359-380

  Miyazaki, Takeshi ^a   Hirahara, Kazuki ^a   Hanazaki, Hideshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; SHEAR FLOW; STRAIN;

AZIMUTHAL WAVENUMBER; ELLIPTICAL VORTEX STABILITY; QUASI GEOSTROPHIC F PLANE APPROXIMATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

ROTATING FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW; VORTEX;

INSTABILITY; ROTATING FLUIDS; STRATIFIED FLOW; VORTICES;

EID: 0031279635     PISSN: 01695983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5983(97)00015-4     Document Type: Article

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