Experimental investigations of quasi-two-dimensional vortices in a stratified fluid with source-sink forcing

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 383, Issue , 1999, Pages 249-283

  De Rooij, Frans ^a   Linden, P F ^a,b   Dalziel, Stuart B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TURBULENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

GEOPHYSICAL TURBULENCE; PARTICLE TRACKING SYSTEM; SOURCE SINK FORCING; STRATIFIED FLUID;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0032641353     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098003966     Document Type: Article

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