Vortical and wave modes in 3D rotating stratified flows: Random large-scale forcing

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 437-455

  Sukhatme, Jai ^a   Smith, Leslie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Boussinesq equations; Rotating and stratified turbulence

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; BURGER NUMBERS; CORIOLIS PARAMETER; EIGEN FUNCTIONS; LARGE-SCALE FORCING; ROSSBY NUMBERS; ROTATING AND STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; ROTATING STRATIFIED FLUIDS; STRATIFIED FLOWS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); WAVE MODES;

ASPECT RATIO;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CORIOLIS FORCE; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; FROUDE NUMBER; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROTATING FLOW; STRATIFICATION; STRATIFIED FLOW; STRATIFIED FLUID; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VORTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 52649113293     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091920801915318     Document Type: Article

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