A sturm-liouville eigenproblem of the fourth kind: A critical latitude with equatorial trapping

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 433-455

  Boyd, John P ^a   Natarov, Andrei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL WAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLES; SHEAR FLOW;

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS; BRANCH POINTS; CRITICAL LATITUDE; EIGEN-PROBLEMS; EIGEN-VALUE; HERMITE FUNCTIONS; PARABOLIC CYLINDER; ROSSBY WAVE; SIMPLE++; STURM-LIOUVILLE;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 0038930965     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9590.00100     Document Type: Article

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