Wave-induced distortions of a slightly stratified shear flow: a nonlinear critical-layer effect
- 22 May 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 58 (4) , 727-735
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112073002454
Abstract
A slightly stratified shear flow is considered when the effects of nonlinearity, viscosity and thermal diffusivity are in balance in the critical layer. Finite amplitude essentially non-diffusive neutral waves exist only if the mean temperature, velocity and vorticity profiles are distorted such that small jumps in these quantities occur across the critical layer.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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