Meta-stability of equilibrium statistical structures for prototype geophysical flows with damping and driving

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 151, Issue 2-4, 2001, Pages 271-304

  Dibattista, Mark T ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^a   Grote, Marcus J ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coherent structure; Equilibrium statistical theory; Meta stability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DAMPING; ERROR ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSITION FLOW;

EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL THEORY; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; META-STABILITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0035339034     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(01)00230-5     Document Type: Article

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