Experimental and numerical study of mean zonal flows generated by librations of a rotating spherical cavity

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 662, Issue , 2010, Pages 260-268

  Sauret, A ^a   Cbron D ^a   Morize, C ^a,b   Le Bars, M ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

rotating flows

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

AXISYMMETRIC; EKMAN NUMBERS; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY MEASUREMENT; ROTATING FLOW; ROTATION RATE; SOLID-BODY ROTATION; SPHERICAL CAVITIES;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AMPLITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID DYNAMICS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROTATING FLOW; ROTATING FLUID; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 78649933658     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010004052     Document Type: Article

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