Laboratory modeling of geophysical vortices

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 41, Issue , 2009, Pages 143-164

  Van Heijst, G J F ^a   Clercx, H J H ^a,b  

^a Department of Physics   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

effect; Barotropic vortices; Rotating flow; Shallow fluid layer; Topography

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC VORTICES; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC VORTICES; COASTAL AREA; DENSITY EFFECTS; FLUID LAYER; GENERATION TECHNIQUES; GEOMETRICAL CONFINEMENT; ROTATING FLOW; ROTATING FLUIDS; SHALLOW FLUID LAYER; TIDAL EXCHANGE; TOPOGRAPHY EFFECTS;

COASTAL ZONES; FLUIDS; ROTATIONAL FLOW;

ROTATION;

LABORATORY METHOD; MODELING; ROTATING FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 55649108242     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.010908.165207     Document Type: Review

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