Dissipation mechanisms for convection in rapidly rotating spheres and the formation of banded structures

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Morin, Vincent ^a,b   Dormy, Emmanuel ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SPHERES; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

BANDED ZONAL STRUCTURES; EKMAN NUMBER; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC MODEL;

HEAT CONVECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SPHERES; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33745609498     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2215605     Document Type: Article

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