A new scaling for tornado-like vortices

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 7 II, 2005, Pages 2639-2645

  Nolan, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VORTEX FLOW;

AXISYMMETRIC INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; TORNADO-LIKE VORTICES;

TORNADOES;

NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TORNADO; VORTEX;

EID: 27344447854     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3461.1     Document Type: Article

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