Hydraulic adjustment to an obstacle in a rotating channel

DOI10.1017/S0022112099007065zbMath0991.76092OpenAlexW2165663099MaRDI QIDQ4494551

Karl Helfrich, Eric P. Chassignet, L. J. Pratt

Publication date: 21 August 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099007065

zbMATH Keywords

flow separationhydraulic jumpstwo-dimensional shallow-water equationsupstream influencerotating channel flowuniform potential vorticityRossby radius of deformationcritical obstacle heightsemigeostrophic approximationseparated rarefying instrusionssidewall boundary layersupstream-propagating shocks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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