Numerical study of the motions within a slowly precessing sphere at low Ekman number

DOI10.1017/S0022112001004311zbMath0982.76096OpenAlexW2136736246MaRDI QIDQ2745724

Jérôme Noir, D. Jault, Philippe Cardin

Publication date: 8 April 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112001004311

zbMATH Keywords

breakdown of Ekman boundary layergeostrophic circulationslowly precessing rigid bodysmall Ekman numbersspherical fluid cavity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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