On the genesis of quasi-steady vortices in a rotating turbulent flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112087003100zbMath0633.76053OpenAlexW2133631820MaRDI QIDQ3771855

Mathieu Mory, Philippe Caperan

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112087003100

zbMATH Keywords

numerical integrationthermal convectionrotating fluidlinear perturbation equationsMarginal stability curvesoccurrence of an instabilityquasi-geostrophic turbulent flowturbulent kinetic energy equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Turbulence (76F99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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