Formation of columnar baroclinic vortices in thermally stratified nonlinear spin-up

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.175zbMath1248.76146MaRDI QIDQ2907187

J. Rafael Pacheco, Roberto Verzicco

Publication date: 7 September 2012

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/0f3378f89a52b3099a3b42a3c8c7663c93dcf6bd

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamics; rotating flows; stratified flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76D50: Stratification effects in viscous fluids

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