Gyroscopic analog for collective motion of a stratified fluid (Q1096502)
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Gyroscopic analog for collective motion of a stratified fluid (English)
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1986
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A precise analogy is drawn between circulation of a stratified fluid in a gravitational field, and angular momentum of a gyroscope. Collective dynamical equations for a stratified fluid are derived from tensor spatial moments of the fluid motion equation in the Boussinesq approximation. From the collective dynamical equations the gyroscope equations arise as a special case. In two dimensions the gyroscope equations reduce to the pendulum equation, which describes planar convection as ``angular sloshing'' whereby the density gradient vector of the stratified fluid undergoes pendulum motion in a vertical plane.
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circulation of a stratified fluid
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Collective dynamical equations
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tensor spatial moments
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Boussinesq approximation
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gyroscope equations
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angular sloshing
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pendulum motion
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