Nonlinear Ekman effects in rotating barotropic flows

DOI10.1017/S0022112000008193MaRDI QIDQ4500138zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Zavala Sansón, G. J. F. Van Heijst

Publication date 6 December 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112000008193

zbMATH Keywords

barotropic vorticesEkman dampingEkman frictionEkman layerlinear Ekman theorynonlinear advectionnonlinear Ekman terms in vorticity equationrotating barotropic flowstretching effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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