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Wave-induced distortions of a slightly stratified shear flow: a nonlinear critical-layer effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Richard Haberman
Richard Haberman
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, La, Jolla Present address: Department of Mathematics, Rugters University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.
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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , 22 May 1973 , pp. 727 - 735
Copyright
© 1973 Cambridge University Press

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