Numerical simulation of a two-dimensional internal wave attractor

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 614, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-14

  Grisouard, Nicolas ^a   Staquet, Chantal ^a   Pairaud, Ivane ^a  

^a LEGI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NON-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; SPATIAL COORDINATES; THEORETICAL POINTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 54549099408     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200800325X     Document Type: Article

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