Charney isotropy and equipartition in quasi-geostrophic turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 656, Issue , 2010, Pages 448-457

  Vallgren, Andreas ^a   Lindborg, Erik ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

rotating turbulence; turbulence simulation; turbulence theory

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS;

DECAYING TURBULENCE; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY COMPONENTS; INVERSE ENERGY CASCADES; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; ROTATING TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE SIMULATION; TURBULENCE THEORY;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PREDICTION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 77957156534     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010002703     Document Type: Article

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