Long waves in inviscid compressible atmosphere II

Sachdev, PL and Seshadri, VS (1982) Long waves in inviscid compressible atmosphere II. In: Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical Sciences, 91 (1). pp. 39-51.

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Abstract

Solitary waves have been found in an adiabatic compressible atmosphere which, in ambient state, has winds and temperature gradient, generalizing our earlier results for the isothermal atmosphere. Explicit results are obtained for the special case of linear temperature and linear wind distributions in the undisturbed conditions. An important result of the study is that the number of possible critical speeds of the flow depends crucially on whether the maximum Richardson number (which is variable in the present example) is greater or less than 1/4.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical Sciences
Publisher:	Springer India, in co-publication with Indian Academy of Sciences
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	13 Nov 2009 11:13
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:45
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/23310

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