Titlebook: Rotating Fluids in Geophysical and Industrial Applications; E. J. Hopfinger Book 1992 Springer-Verlag Wien 1992 behavior.dynamics.geophysi

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Vorticity, Potential Vorticityquantities. It will be stated as clearly as possible how these different properties are used in industrial situations and in geophysical flows. The content is very classic; details of calculations may be found in chapter 2 of Pedlosky’s book [1] and in chapter 1 of Greenspan’s book [2]. The subject

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Dynamics and Instabilities of Ekman and Stewartson Layersntered in a homogeneous rotating fluid; the Ekman and Stewartson layers. The modifying influence of density stratification (due to thermal contrasts) is considered, and the main modes of instability exhibited by these boundary layers in the laboratory and in nature are discussed with regard to both

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Dynamics of Fronts and Frontal Instabilityiated with eddy motions can lead to frontogenesis. I shall discuss this interplay between fronts and eddies by examining the instabilities of fronts and by describing the eddies produced by these instabilities at finite amplitude.

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Inertial Waveson of the flow field. The basic theory of linear inertial waves is presented here. Two limiting cases are then discussed in more detail: (i) when the frequency is just below the Coriolis frequency (“near-inertial waves”), and (ii) when the frequency of oscillations is small compared to the Coriolis

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Dynamics of Vortex Filamentsparticles which are at some stage of their history close to the body acquire vorticity by diffusion from the boundary. Were it not for the occurence of flow separation, the flow away from the boundary of the body would remain irrotational.

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Two-Dimensional Barotropic and Baroclinic Vorticesity of isolated vortices and the dynamics of the interaction of pairs, triades or more is of fundamental interest for refined models of the general circulation and of geostrophic turbulence. Processes of heat transfer and the dispersion of biochemical components are closely connected with coherent s

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Book 1992ing a range of examples of rotating fluids encountered in geophysics and engineering. This is then followed by a discussion of the relevant scales and parameters of rotating flow, and an introduction to geostrophic balance and vorticity concepts. There are few books on rotating fluids and this volum