Barotropic shearing-wave gravitational amplitude system

ID: barotropic-shearing-wave-gravitational-amplitude-system

A shearing-wave ansatz in a uniform inviscid isothermal shearing sheet removes background advection when the radial wavevector grows as . The razor-thin disk Poisson kernel reduces the pressure-plus-gravity amplitude to . Continuity couples it to , while the two momentum equations have rotational couplings and . The linearized vortensity amplitude remains constant, because the barotropic pressure and gravitational forces have zero curl and the background vortensity is uniform.

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