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光滑剪切和密度剖面的Holmboe不稳定性

On Holmboe's instability for smooth shear and density profiles

Alexandros Alexakis

摘要:

本文研究了光滑密度剖面下剪切分层流的线性稳定性。这项工作的重点是流动的Kelvin-Helmholtz和Holmboe不稳定性的稳定边界的性质。对于一个固定的Richardson数的不稳定模式被限制在有限的频带之间的最小和最大的边缘不稳定波数。本文的结果表明,小波数的稳定性边界是由中性模式的相速度等于最大/最小风速,而其他的稳定性边界,大波数,是由奇异的中性模式的相速度的速度剪切的范围内。我们展示了如何在不像以前那样求解整个参数空间的增长率的情况下评估这些稳定边界。结果进一步表明,有一个新的不稳定域,以前没有注意到在文献中。不稳定模式,在这个新的不稳定域中,出现较大的理查森数的值,并与内部重力波频谱的高次谐波。

英文摘要:

The linear stability of a stratified shear flow for smooth density profiles is studied. This work focuses on the nature of the stability boundaries of flows in which both Kelvin-Helmholtz and Holmboe instabilities are present. For a fixed Richardson number the unstable modes are confined to finite bands between a smallest and a largest marginally unstable wavenumber. The results in this paper indicate that the stability boundary for small wavenumbers is comprised of neutral modes with phase velocity equal to the maximum/minimum wind velocity whereas the other stability boundary, for large wavenumbers, is comprised of singular neutral modes with phase velocity in the range of the velocity shear. We show how these stability boundaries can be evaluated without solving for the growth rate over the entire parameter space as was previously done. The results indicate further that there is a new instability domain that has not been previously noted in the literature. The unstable modes, in this new instability domain, appear for larger values of the Richardson number and are related to the higher harmonics of the internal gravity wave spectrum.

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