The route to dissipation in strongly stratified and rotating flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 720, Issue , 2013, Pages 66-103

  Deusebio, Enrico ^a   Vallgren, A ^a   Lindborg, E ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

geostrophic turbulence; rotating turbulence; stratified turbulence

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FOURIER SERIES; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; INVERSE ENERGY CASCADES; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC DYNAMICS; RESONANT TRIAD INTERACTIONS; ROTATING TURBULENCE; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE;

ROTATION;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FROUDE NUMBER; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROTATING FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84875023330     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.611     Document Type: Article

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