Cyclone-anticyclone asymmetry of large-scale wakes in the laboratory

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Perret, G ^a   Stegner, A ^a   Farge, M ^a   Pichon, T ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric movements; Flow visualisation; Fluorescence; Geophysical fluid dynamics; Vortices; Wakes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; GEOPHYSICS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; ROSSBY NUMBERS;

WAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; GEOPHYSICS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

EID: 33645469212     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2179387     Document Type: Article

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