Motion of a votex sheet on a sphere with pole vortices

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 717-727

  Sakajo, Takashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MOTION COMPENSATION; ROLLING; SPHERES; VORTEX SHEDDING;

CURVATURE OF SHEETS; VORTEX SHEET;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

FLUID FLOW; FLUID MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX SHEET;

EID: 1842843121     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1644148     Document Type: Article

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