The shear-layer structure in a rotating fluid near a differentially rotating sidewall

DOI10.1017/S0022112083000932zbMath0515.76114MaRDI QIDQ3662907

G. J. F. Van Heijst

Publication date: 1983

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

zbMATH Keywords

matchinghomogeneous fluidEkman numberStewartson layeranalytical description of singularity regiondiscontinuity in side wall velocityrapidly rotating cylinderupper part rotates faster than lower part

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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Cites Work

• On almost rigid rotations
• The axisymmetric flow in a rotating annulus due to a horizontally applied temperature gradient
• A simple vorticity diffusion problem