Taylor columns in horizontally sheared flow

DOI10.1080/03091928308209063zbMath0518.76018OpenAlexW2020689470WikidataQ114640605 ScholiaQ114640605MaRDI QIDQ3668126

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

nonlinear integral equationtopographysteadystagnant regionadvection time scaleconservation of potential vorticitycross-stream widthindeterminancy removedIngersoll criterionlinearly sheared geostrophic flow over right circular cylinderpartial retentionstarted from restunaffected 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)

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Cites Work

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

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