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Spin-up problems of stratified rotating flows inside containers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2012

Peter W. Duck
Peter W. Duck*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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†Email addresses for correspondence: duck@ma.man.ac.uk
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Rotating, stratified flows are important in a wide variety of both geophysical and engineering applications. Whilst ‘steady state’ flows of this type are generally very simple (in effect, rigid body rotation), the effect of abruptly altering (even a little) the rotation rate can induce significant temporal flow disruptions, made all the more complicated when the fluid is bounded inside a closed finite container, a problem studied both experimentally and theoretically by Foster & Munro (J. Fluid Mech., this issue, vol. 712, 2012, pp. 7–40).

JFM classification

Boundary Layers: Boundary layer structure Geophysical and Geological Flows: Rotating flows Geophysical and Geological Flows: Stratified flows

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Focus on Fluids
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 712 , 10 December 2012 , pp. 3 - 6
Copyright
©2012 Cambridge University Press 

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