Stirring: The Eckart paradigm revisited

International Journal of Engineering Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1027-1042

  Branicki, M ^a   Kirwan Jr , A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D ocean eddies; Hyperbolic trajectories; Lyapunov exponents; Stable and unstable manifolds; Stirring; Time dependent transport

Indexed keywords

HYPERBOLIC TRAJECTORY; LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; OCEAN EDDIES; STIRRING; TIME-DEPENDENT TRANSPORT; UNSTABLE MANIFOLD;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; GEOPHYSICS; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 78649630265     PISSN: 00207225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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