Could a pile of slippery sacks behave like an ocean?

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2975-2988

  Haertel, Patrick T ^a   Randall, David A ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVES;

INCOMPRESSIBLE INVISCID FLUIDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

FLUID DYNAMICS; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 0036965794     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2975:CAPOSS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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