Three-dimensional instabilities of oscillatory equatorial zonal shear flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 623, Issue , 2009, Pages 59-74

  Natarov, Andrei ^a   Richards, Kelvin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATING FLOW;

INFLECTION POINTS; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; OSCILLATING COMPONENTS; OSCILLATING SHEAR; OSCILLATORY SHEAR; RESONANT EXCITATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL INSTABILITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISTURBANCES;

SHEAR FLOW;

BETA-PLANE; FLOW STABILITY; OSCILLATING FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 65649087190     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008005211     Document Type: Article

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