Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface
- 1 Introduction and Problem Formulation
- 2 Temporal Stability of Inviscid Incompressible Flows
- 3 Temporal Stability of Viscous Incompressible Flows
- 4 Spatial Stability of Incompressible Flows
- 5 Stability of Compressible Flows
- 6 Centrifugal Stability
- 7 Geophysical Flow
- 8 Transient Dynamics
- 9 Nonlinear Stability
- 10 Transition and Receptivity
- 11 Direct Numerical Simulation
- 12 Flow Control and Optimization
- 13 Investigating Hydrodynamic Instabilities with Experiments
- Appendix A Mathematical Formulas
- Appendix B Numerical Methods
- Appendix C Solutions to Exercises
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
7 - Geophysical Flow
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface
- 1 Introduction and Problem Formulation
- 2 Temporal Stability of Inviscid Incompressible Flows
- 3 Temporal Stability of Viscous Incompressible Flows
- 4 Spatial Stability of Incompressible Flows
- 5 Stability of Compressible Flows
- 6 Centrifugal Stability
- 7 Geophysical Flow
- 8 Transient Dynamics
- 9 Nonlinear Stability
- 10 Transition and Receptivity
- 11 Direct Numerical Simulation
- 12 Flow Control and Optimization
- 13 Investigating Hydrodynamic Instabilities with Experiments
- Appendix A Mathematical Formulas
- Appendix B Numerical Methods
- Appendix C Solutions to Exercises
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
The instability of geophysical flows are covered in Chapter 7. From the class of geophysical flows, there are three classes that are distinct and that illustrate the salient properties when viewed from the basis of perturbations. These cases include the effects of density variations and rotation. The cases considered in this chapter are stratified flow, rotation (Rossby waves) and the Ekman layer.
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- Theory and Computation in Hydrodynamic Stability , pp. 191 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018