On inertial flow over topography. Part 1. Semigeostrophic adjustment to an obstacle

DOI10.1017/S0022112083001299zbMath0533.76045MaRDI QIDQ3316834

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Publication date: 1983

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

zbMATH Keywords

jumpsRiemann invariantsbreaking boresdispersive regions of Rossby deformationhydraulically controlledinterfacial shocksjump conditions on mass, momentum and potential vorticityLax-Wendroff numerical schemenonlinear Kelvin wavespartial blockagesudden obtrustion of an obstacletime-dependent adjustment of a homogeneous rotating- channel flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Cites Work

• Difference for the inviscid and viscous equations of a compressible gas
• The numerical integration of the nonlinear shallow-water equations with sloping boundaries
• The hydraulics of rotating-channel flow

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