Axisymmetric intrusions in two-layer and uniformly stratified environments with and without rotation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Holdsworth, Amber M ^a   Barrett, Kai J ^a   Sutherland, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; PHYSICS;

CONSTANT SPEED; GEOSTROPHIC BALANCE; GRAVITY CURRENTS; INITIAL SPEED; INTERNAL WAVES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAXIMUM DISTANCE; STRATIFIED ENVIRONMENTS;

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

EID: 84859319311     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3696018     Document Type: Article

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