Experiments on a barotropic rotating shear layer. Part 1. Instability and steady vortices

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 383, Issue , 1999, Pages 143-173

  Früh, Wolf Gerrit ^a   Read, Peter L ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOUNDARY LAYERS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STABILITY; STEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

AXISYMMETRIC FLOW; BAROTROPIC SHEAR LAYER; HOPF BIFURCATION; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC THEORY; STEWARTSON LAYER; WAVENUMBERS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0142040534     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098003930     Document Type: Article

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