Numerical experiments of two-level decaying turbulence on a rotating sphere

Fluid Dynamics Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-57

  Kitamura, Yuji ^a   Matsuda, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decaying turbulence; Pattern formation; Two dimensional turbulence; Two level rotating spherical model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROTROPIZATION; ROSSBY NUMBER;

TURBULENCE;

DECAY; FLOW PATTERN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0347353585     PISSN: 01695983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluiddyn.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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