Topographic inviscid dissipation of balanced flow

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Dewar, William K ^a   Hogg, Andrew McC ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydraulic control; Meddies; Ocean mixing; Topography; Unbalanced flow; Vortex

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FLOW; DIRECT EXCITATION; FLOW VORTICES; FRICTIONAL INTERACTIONS; HIGH MODES; HYDRAULIC CONTROL; INTERNAL BOUNDARY; LARGE LENGTH-SCALE; MEDDIES; MESOSCALE; NATURAL EVOLUTION; NEW MECHANISMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OCEAN MIXING; PARAMETERIZATIONS; TERAWATT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; HYDRAULICS; SUGAR INDUSTRY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICAL FLOW; DISSIPATION; FLOW MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERNAL WAVE; MESOSCALE MOTION; MIXING; STRATIFICATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 73649098814     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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