WIT Press


Stuart Vortices In A Stratified Mixing Layer: The Holmboe Model

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

36

Pages

12

Published

2002

Size

637 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/AFM020251

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

R. Mallier

Abstract

The objective of this analysis is to model the quasi-steady state vortices that have been observed in two-dimensional simulations of vortex roll-up in stratified shear layers. We use a time-independent nonlinear critical layer analysis to find a family of steady state finite-amplitude waves in the Holmboe model of an in viscid stratified shear layer.

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