Mean zonal flows generated by librations of a rotating spherical cavity

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 650, Issue , 2010, Pages 505-512

  Busse, F H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; FLUID MECHANICS;

ANALYTICAL THEORY; AXISYMMETRIC; FLUID-FILLED CAVITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID CORES; PLANETS AND SATELLITES; ROTATION RATE; SPHERICAL CAVITIES;

SATELLITES;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; EKMAN LAYER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID MECHANICS; ROTATING FLUID; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 77952428123     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010000753     Document Type: Article

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