On the internal shear layers spawned by the critical regions in oscillatory Ekman boundary layers

DOI10.1017/S0022112095003326zbMath0920.76090OpenAlexW2026985903MaRDI QIDQ4881456

R. R. Kerswell

Publication date: 15 July 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112095003326

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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