Rotating channel flow: Control and upstream currents

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 185-226

  Whitehead, J A ^a,b   Salzig, John ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Currents; Hydraulic control; Rotating flow; Turntable experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141626478     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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