# Instabilities of buoyancy-driven coastal currents and their nonlinear evolution in the two-layer rotating shallow water model. Part 2. Active lower layer

@article{Gula2010InstabilitiesOB,
title={Instabilities of buoyancy-driven coastal currents and their nonlinear evolution in the two-layer rotating shallow water model. Part 2. Active lower layer},
author={Jonathan Gula and Vladimir Zeitlin and François Bouchut},
journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
year={2010},
volume={665},
pages={209 - 237}
}
• Published 2010
• Physics
• Journal of Fluid Mechanics
This paper is the second part of the work on linear and nonlinear stability of buoyancy-driven coastal currents. Part 1, concerning a passive lower layer, was presented in the companion paper Gula & Zeitlin (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 659, 2010, p. 69). In this part, we use a fully baroclinic two-layer model, with active lower layer. We revisit the linear stability problem for coastal currents and study the nonlinear evolution of the instabilities with the help of high-resolution direct numerical… Expand
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