Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Equilibrium thermodynamics of sea water
- 3 Balance equations
- 4 Molecular flux laws
- 5 The gravitational potential
- 6 The basic equations
- 7 Dynamic impact of the equation of state
- 8 Free wave solutions on a sphere
- 9 Asymptotic expansions
- 10 Reynolds decomposition
- 11 Boussinesq approximation
- 12 Large-scale motions
- 13 Primitive equations
- 14 Representation of vertical structure
- 15 Ekman layers
- 16 Planetary geostrophic flows
- 17 Tidal equations
- 18 Medium-scale motions
- 19 Quasi-geostrophic flows
- 20 Motions on the f-plane
- 21 Small-scale motions
- 22 Sound waves
- Appendix A Equilibrium thermodynamics
- Appendix B Vector and tensor analysis
- Appendix C Orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems
- Appendix D Kinematics of fluid motion
- Appendix E Kinematics of waves
- Appendix F Conventions and notation
- References
- Index
10 - Reynolds decomposition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Equilibrium thermodynamics of sea water
- 3 Balance equations
- 4 Molecular flux laws
- 5 The gravitational potential
- 6 The basic equations
- 7 Dynamic impact of the equation of state
- 8 Free wave solutions on a sphere
- 9 Asymptotic expansions
- 10 Reynolds decomposition
- 11 Boussinesq approximation
- 12 Large-scale motions
- 13 Primitive equations
- 14 Representation of vertical structure
- 15 Ekman layers
- 16 Planetary geostrophic flows
- 17 Tidal equations
- 18 Medium-scale motions
- 19 Quasi-geostrophic flows
- 20 Motions on the f-plane
- 21 Small-scale motions
- 22 Sound waves
- Appendix A Equilibrium thermodynamics
- Appendix B Vector and tensor analysis
- Appendix C Orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems
- Appendix D Kinematics of fluid motion
- Appendix E Kinematics of waves
- Appendix F Conventions and notation
- References
- Index
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- The Equations of Oceanic Motions , pp. 112 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006