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A source-sink flow in a rotating fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. A. Johnson
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Extract

The flow from a line source to a line sink in a multiply connected region is discussed. It is shown that the transport from source to sink passes through the interior region and the Stewartson layers as well as through the Ekman layers.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1974

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