Axisymmetric simulations of libration-driven fluid dynamics in a spherical shell geometry

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Calkins, Michael A ^a   Noir, Jérôme ^a   Eldredge, Jeff D ^a   Aurnou, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EARTH (PLANET); FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; ROTATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPHERES; VORTEX FLOW;

ANGULAR ROTATION RATE; AXISYMMETRIC SIMULATION; CENTRIFUGAL INSTABILITY; EKMAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 77956642920     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3475817     Document Type: Article

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