On fluid flows in precessing spheres in the mantle frame of reference

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Keke ^a   Chan, Kit H ^b   Liao, Xinhao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR VELOCITY; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SPHERES;

ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; FRAME OF REFERENCE; HOMOGENEOUS FLUIDS; NONLINEAR NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SOLVABILITY CONDITIONS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL STRUCTURE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 79251578039     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3515344     Document Type: Article

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