A microscopic derivation of the equilibrium energy density spectrum for barotropic turbulence on a sphere

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 294, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 375-387

  Lim, Chjan C ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; SPHERES; THEOREM PROVING;

BAROTROPIC TURBULENCE; EQUILIBRIUM ENERGY DENSITY SPECTRUM; EULER FLOWS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0035873013     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00029-2     Document Type: Article

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