Energy-vorticity theory of ideal fluid mechanics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2073-2084

  Névir, Peter ^a   Sommer, Matthias ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC SYSTEMS; CASIMIR; CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; CLIMATE SIMULATION; COHERENT STRUCTURE; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; ENERGY-ENTROPY; ENSTROPHY; EULERIAN EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORY; FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; HELICITIES; IDEAL FLUIDS; IN-PHASE; ISENTROPIC SURFACES; LONG-TERM INTEGRATION; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; POISSON BRACKETS; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; PSEUDO-DENSITY; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC THEORY; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS;

BLENDING; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NEON; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VORTICITY;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY FLUX; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FLUID MECHANICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; POISSON RATIO; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 67649453264     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2897.1     Document Type: Article

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