Chaotic mixing and transport in Rossby-wave critical layers

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 334, Issue , 1997, Pages 315-351

  Ngan, Keith ^a   Shepherd, Theodore G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DISPERSION (WAVES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHAOTIC ADVECTION; ROSSBY WAVE CRITICAL LAYERS; TRACER FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

CHAOS; MIXING; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA; WAVES;

ADVECTION; CHAOTIC MIXING; CRITICAL LAYERS; MODEL; PLANETARY WAVES; TRANSPORT;

EID: 0031104462     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096004363     Document Type: Article

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