Experiments on a barotropic rotating shear layer. Part 1. Instability and steady vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112098003930zbMath0941.76531OpenAlexW1982447916MaRDI QIDQ4267591

Wolf-Gerrit Früh, P. L. Read

Publication date: 9 July 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098003930

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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