Near-critical reflection of internal waves

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 390, Issue , 1999, Pages 271-295

  Dauxois, Thierry ^a,b   Young, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; MILES-HOWARD STABILITY;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 0032662591     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112099005108     Document Type: Article

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