Stability of parallel wake flows in quasigeostrophic and frontal regimes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Perret, Gaele ^a   Stegner, A ^b   Dubos, T ^c   Chomaz, J M ^d   Farge, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Convection; External flows; Flow instability; Vortices; Wakes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SHEAR FLOW; AERODYNAMICS; ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; STORMS; WAKES;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; EXTERNAL FLOWS; FLOW INSTABILITY; ROSSBY NUMBER; ABSOLUTE INSTABILITY; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; CYCLONE-ANTICYCLONE ASYMMETRIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR STABILITY PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; SHALLOW WATER LAYERS; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

WAKES; PARALLEL FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SHEAR FLOW; WAKES;

EID: 33846080026     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2397563     Document Type: Article

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