A numerical model of the balance equations in a periodic domain and an example of balanced turbulence

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(86)90271-8zbMath0599.76032OpenAlexW1999336213MaRDI QIDQ1080723

N. J. Norton, Peter R. Gent, James C. McWilliams

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(86)90271-8

zbMATH Keywords

balance equationsenstrophy cascadegeostrophic turbulencebalanced turbulenceCoriolis frequencydiscrete spatial operationsevolution of the vorticity fieldexistence of a solvability barriergravity wave componenthighly approximated quasigeostrophic equationsiterative, predictor-corrector methodslow-order, finite differencesrotating stratified fluid motionsviscous decay of broad- band, large-scale, baroclinic initial conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulence (76F99) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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