On transport across a barotropic shear flow by breaking inertia-gravity waves

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1993-2006

  Staquet, C ^a   Huerre, G ^a  

^a LEGI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROMETERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAVITY WAVES; TURBULENT FLOW;

TRAPPING PLANE;

SHEAR FLOW;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVE; INERTIA; SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0036611621     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1476303     Document Type: Article

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