Rotating fluids in geophysical and industrial applications /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wien ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[1992]
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| Series: | Courses and lectures ;
no. 329. |
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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.