Experiments on instability of columnar vortex pairs in rotating fluid

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-48

  Afanasyev, Ya D ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

SINUOUS DEFORMATION; TOROID; VORTEX PAIR; WAVE NUMBER;

ROTATIONAL FLOW;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

ANTICYCLONE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOPHYSICS; PERTURBATION; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROTATING FLUID; TOROIDAL FIELD; VORTEX;

EID: 1342307980     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091920290018835     Document Type: Article

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