NONLINEAR STABILITY OF TWO-LAYER FLOWS ¤

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 427-442

  Milewski, Paul ^a   Tabak, Esteban ^b   Turner, Cristina ^c   Rosales, Ruben ^d   Menzaque, Fernando ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Shallow water; Shear instability; Systems of mixed type; Two layer flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250205403     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: 19450796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2004.v2.n3.a5     Document Type: Article

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