Simulations of shear instabilities in interfacial gravity waves

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 644, Issue , 2010, Pages 61-95

  Barad, Michael F ^a   Fringer, Oliver B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW; SOLITONS; STRAIN RATE;

ADAPTIVE NUMERICAL METHODS; CRITICAL RICHARDSON NUMBER; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; INTERFACIAL GRAVITY WAVE; RATE-OF-STRAIN TENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL INSTABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

FLUID MECHANICS; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SIMULATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77952343688     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009992035     Document Type: Article

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