The dynamical systems approach to Lagrangian transport in oceanic flows

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2005, Pages 295-328

  Wiggins, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow barrier; Hyperbolic trajectory; Invariant manifold; Lobe dynamics; Oceanography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GEOPHYSICS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SYSTEM THEORY;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; OCEANIC FLOW; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; SPACE-TIME STRUCTURES;

FLUID MECHANICS;

FLUID MECHANICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

FLUID MECHANICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 14544294888     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.37.061903.175815     Document Type: Review

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