Marginally unstable Holmboe modes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Alexakis, Alexandros ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DISPERSION (WAVES); GRAVITY WAVES; SHEAR FLOW; VELOCITY;

HOLMBOE INSTABILITY; HOLMBOE MODES;

STREAM FLOW;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DISPERSION (WAVES); GRAVITY WAVES; SHEAR FLOW; STREAM FLOW; VELOCITY;

EID: 34250000260     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2730545     Document Type: Article

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