Large-eddy simulation of coastal upwelling flow

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 197-223

  Cui, Anqing ^a,b   Street, Robert L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APPLIED MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal upwelling; Coriolis force; Instability; Large eddy simulation; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; CORIOLIS FORCE; LABORATORY METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PARALLEL COMPUTING; STRATIFIED FLUID; UPWELLING;

EID: 4344562756     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EFMC.0000016610.05554.0f     Document Type: Article

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