Stratified shear flow instabilities at large Richardson numbers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Alexakis, Alexandros ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MIXING; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRANDTL NUMBER; SAILING VESSELS;

DENSITY VARIATIONS; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ MODES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFIED ENVIRONMENTS; STRATIFIED SHEAR FLOW INSTABILITY; VELOCITY PERTURBATION; VELOCITY VARIATIONS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 66849093833     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3147934     Document Type: Article

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