Ekman effects in a rotating flow over bottom topography

DOI10.1017/S0022112002002239zbMath1027.76063OpenAlexW2046834464MaRDI QIDQ4409298

G. J. F. Van Heijst, L. Zavala Sansón

Publication date: 10 November 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112002002239

zbMATH Keywords

topographyEkman boundary layerviscous effectsvorticity-stream function formulationinviscid effectstwo-dimensional rotating barotropic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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