Global mode
In the physics of hydrodynamics, a global mode of a system is one in which the system executes coherent oscillations in time. Suppose a quantity y ( x , t ) {\displaystyle y(x,t)} which depends on space x {\displaystyle x} and time t {\displaystyle t} is governed by some partial differential equation which does not have an explicit dependence on t {\displaystyle t} .