## [#  Project on Excitation of Nonlinear Equilibria in Shear Flow 

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This work shows that transient growth of properly configured small amplitude initial perturbations leads to formation of finite amplitude nonlinear equilibria in barotropic shear flow. It demonstrates the trajectory in phase space leading from linear perturbations to nonlinear solutions.