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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2006
The nonlinear development of the Batchelor–Nitsche instability (of a periodically stratified fluid) is considered, utilizing the disparity between vertical and horizontal scales of motion. The resulting evolution equation is used to show that the preferred pattern of convection takes the form of rolls, and that the motion evolves to larger and larger horizontal scales as time increases.