Rotating fluids in geophysical and industrial applications /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
Other Authors: Hopfinger, E. J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wien ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1992]
Series:Courses and lectures ; no. 329.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • General concepts and examples of rotating fluids ; Parameters, scales and geostrophic balance / E.J. Hopfinger
  • Vorticity, potential vorticity / M. Mory
  • Dynamics and instabilities of Ekman and Stewartson layers / P.L. Read
  • Barotropic and baroclinic instabilities ; Dynamics of fronts and frontal instability / P.F. Linden
  • Wave motions in a rotating and/or stratified fluid / T. Maxworthy
  • Inertial waves / M. Mory
  • Rotating annulus flows and baroclinic waves / P.L. Read
  • Dynamics of vortex filaments / D.W. Moore
  • Two-dimensional barotropic and baroclinic vortices / E.J. Hopfinger
  • Long-lived eddies in the atmospheres of the major planets / P.L. Read
  • Vortex flow generated by a rotating disc / M. Mory and A. Spohn.
  • Rotation effects on turbulence / M. Mory
  • Convective and shear flow turbulence with rotation / T. Maxworthy
  • Baroclinic turbulence / E.J. Hopfinger
  • Resonant collapse / P.F. Linden and R. Manasseh.