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Rotating and stratified fluid flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Kathleen Trustrum
Affiliation:
School of Physical Sciences, University of Sussex

Abstract

For flows in either rotating or stratified fluids, a technique is developed for solving initial-value problems using an Oseen approximation to the non-linear inertial terms in the equations of motion. The resulting equations for either application are similar. The solutions bear a strong qualitative resemblence to observed flows of both kinds, being characterized at small Rossby or Froude numbers by a blocked flow upstream of an obstacle and waves on the downstream side.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1964 Cambridge University Press

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