The axisymmetric collapse of a mixed patch and internal wave generation in uniformly stratified fluid

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Holdsworth, Amber M ^a   Décamp, Sabine ^a   Sutherland, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; HURRICANES; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; INTERNAL WAVES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MIXED REGIONS; STRATIFIED FLUID; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; WAVE NUMBERS;

FLUIDS;

EID: 79251591990     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3489124     Document Type: Article

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