Interaction of dipolar vortices with a step-like topography

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Tenreiro, M ^a   Sansón, L Zavala ^a   van Heijst, G J F ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; ROTATIONAL FLOW;

BAROTROPIC DIPOLE; DIPOLAR VORTICES; QUASI-TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; STEP-LIKE TOPOGRAPHY;

VORTEX FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; ROTATIONAL FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33744809791     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2204070     Document Type: Article

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