Convection in rotating non-uniformly stratified spherical fluid shells: A systematic parameter study

Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 207-220

  Šimkanin, Ján ^a   Hejda, Pavel ^a   Jankovlčová, Dana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Control volume method; Multilayer convection; Non uniform stratification; Rotating convection

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; EKMAN LAYER; ROTATING FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW;

EID: 70449572111     PISSN: 13352806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10126-009-0007-3     Document Type: Article

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