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

DOI10.1007/s001620050043zbMath0911.76097MaRDI QIDQ1389999

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 exponents; chaotic behavior; control parameter; parameter space; baroclinic waves; background potential vorticity gradient; radiational heating

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-05: Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

86A10: Meteorology and atmospheric physics