On the stirring properties of the thermally-driven rotating annulus

DOI10.1016/j.physd.2013.11.004zbMath1302.76202MaRDI QIDQ2448763

R. J. Keane, P. L. Read, Gregory P. King

Publication date: 5 May 2014

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2013.11.004

zbMATH Keywords

geophysical fluid dynamics; finite scale Lyapunov exponents; Lagrangian stirring; Eulerian symmetry measures; thermally-driven rotating annulus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

86A10: Meteorology and atmospheric physics

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