Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Normal Mode Instabilities
- 1 Preliminaries
- 2 Convective Instability
- 3 Instabilities of a Parallel Shear Flow
- 4 Parallel Shear Flow: the Effects of Stratification
- 5 Parallel Shear Flow: the Effects of Viscosity
- 6 Synthesis: Viscous, Diffusive, Inhomogeneous, Parallel Shear Flow
- 7 Nonparallel Flow: Instabilities of a Cylindrical Vortex
- 8 Instability in a Rotating Environment
- 9 Convective Instability in Complex Fluids
- 10 Summary
- Part II The View Ahead
- Appendix A Homework Exercises
- Appendix B Projects
- References
- Index
4 - Parallel Shear Flow: the Effects of Stratification
from Part I - Normal Mode Instabilities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Normal Mode Instabilities
- 1 Preliminaries
- 2 Convective Instability
- 3 Instabilities of a Parallel Shear Flow
- 4 Parallel Shear Flow: the Effects of Stratification
- 5 Parallel Shear Flow: the Effects of Viscosity
- 6 Synthesis: Viscous, Diffusive, Inhomogeneous, Parallel Shear Flow
- 7 Nonparallel Flow: Instabilities of a Cylindrical Vortex
- 8 Instability in a Rotating Environment
- 9 Convective Instability in Complex Fluids
- 10 Summary
- Part II The View Ahead
- Appendix A Homework Exercises
- Appendix B Projects
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Instability in Geophysical Flows , pp. 107 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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