Progress in characterizing the route to geostrophic turbulence and redesigning thermally driven rotating annulus experiments

DOI10.1007/S001620050043MaRDI QIDQ1389999zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Massart

Publication date 14 July 1998

Published in Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s001620050043

zbMATH Keywords

Lyapunov exponentschaotic behaviorparameter spacecontrol parameterbaroclinic wavesbackground potential vorticity gradientradiational heating

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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• On the stirring properties of the thermally-driven rotating annulus
• Instabilities and small-scale waves within the Stewartson layers of a thermally driven rotating annulus

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