Taylor columns in horizontally sheared flow

DOI10.1080/03091928308209063MaRDI QIDQ3668126zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors E. R. Johnson

Publication date 1983

Published in Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928308209063

zbMATH Keywords

advection time scaleconservation of potential vorticitycross-stream widthindeterminancy removedIngersoll criterionlinearly sheared geostrophic flow over right circular cylindernonlinear integral equationpartial retentionstagnant regionstarted from reststeadytopographyunaffected by Ekman pumpingviscous spin-up time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Geophysics (86A99)

Cites work

• On source-sink flows in a rotating fluid
• On the structure of inertial waves produced by an obstacle in a deep, rotating container
• Some remarks on the initiation of inertial Taylor columns
• Trapped vortices in rotating flow

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• Nonlinear influence of the Earth's rotation on iceberg melting
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