Convection in a rotating cylindrical annulus: thermal Rossby waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112086000095zbMath0593.76090OpenAlexW2097406802MaRDI QIDQ3724004

A. C. Or, Friedrich H. Busse

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112086000095

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear equationsReynolds stressesrotating annulusthermal Rossby wavesanalytical perturbation theoryzonal mean flowabsence of curvatureconvection rolls in a non-rotating layerdouble roll structuredrift of the convection columnsreduced convective heat transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Forced convection (76R05)

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• Convection induced by centrifugal buoyancy
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