The evolution of a front in turbulent thermal wind balance. II: Numerical simulations

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.688MaRDI QIDQ5237791zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Matthew N. Crowe, J. R. Taylor

Publication date 21 October 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.688

zbMATH Keywords

mixing and dispersionocean circulationocean processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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