Inertial oscillations in a spherical shell

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 23-43

  Fotheringham, Paul ^a   Hollerbach, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inertial oscillations; Shear layers

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; INERTIA; OSCILLATING FLOW; SPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEODYNAMO; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0033506860     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929808213647     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Aldridge, K. D. and Toomre, A., "Axisymmetric inertial oscillations of a fluid in a rotating spherical container," J. Fluid Mech. 37, 307-323 (1969).
2. Bullard, E. C. and Gellman, H., "Homogeneous dynamos and terrestrial magnetism," Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 247, 213-278 (1954).
3. Greenspan, H. P., The Theory of Rotating Fluids, Cambridge University Press (1968).
4. Henderson, G. A. and Aldridge, K. D. (1992) "A finite-element method for inertial waves in a frustum," J. Fluid Mech. 234, 317-327.
5. Hollerbach, R. and Kerswell, R. R., "Oscillatory internal shear layers in rotating and precessing flows," J. Fluid Mech. 298, 327-339 (1995).
6. Kerswell, R. R., "On the internal shear layers spawned by the critical regions in oscillatory Ekman boundary layers," J. Fluid Mech. 298, 311-325 (1995).
7. Rieutord, M. and Valdettaro, L., "Inertial waves in a rotating spherical shell," J. Fluid Mech. 341, 77-99 (1997).
8. Roberts, P. H. and Stewartson, K., "On the stability of a Maclaurin spheroid of small viscosity," Astrophys. J. 137, 777-790 (1963).
9. Stewartson, K. and Rickard, J. A., "On pathological oscillations of a rotating fluid," J. Fluid Mech. 17, 1-20 (1963).
10. Walton, I. C., "On waves in a thin rotating spherical shell of slightly viscous fluid," Mathematika 22, 46-59 (1975).