Model dynamics and vertical collapse in decaying strongly stratified flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2932-2940

  Majda, Andrew J ^a   Grote, Marcus J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; MODEL; STRATIFIED FLOW; VORTICITY;

FLOW MODELLING; FLUID DYNAMICS; STRATIFIED FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 0030703611     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869405     Document Type: Article

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