Symmetry, sidewalls, and the transition to chaos in baroclinic systems

DOI10.1017/S0022112095003703MaRDI QIDQ4881491zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael D. Mundt, John E. Hart, Daniel R. Ohlsen

Publication date 9 June 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112095003703

zbMATH Keywords

horizontal sheardesymmetrizationtwo-layer baroclinic flow in cylinderviscous sidewall boundary layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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• Projection conditions on the vorticity in viscous incompressible flows

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