Quasigeostrophic model of the instabilities of the Stewartson layer in flat and depth-varying containers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Schaeffer, Nathanaël ^a   Cardin, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Confined flow; Flow instability; Rotational flow; Shear flow; Waves

Indexed keywords

CONFINED FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STABILITY;

FLOW INSTABILITY; ROSSBY NUMBER; STEWARTSON LAYERS;

SHEAR FLOW;

CONFINED FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; STABILITY;

EID: 33645101971     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2073547     Document Type: Article

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