The linear stability of thermally stratified rotating channel flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 439-449

  Sha, Weiming ^a   Tsuchiya, Kenichi ^a   Nakabayashi, Koichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0013001251     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869870     Document Type: Article

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