Published 1983
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The instability of a shear flow in the presence of the Coriolis force
Description
In the last few years, the instabilities of zonal currents in planetary atmospheres were discussed from the viewpoint of the formation of vortices of the type of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter. For example, Sagdeev et al. have obtained the solution of the hydrodynamic equations that include the Coriolis force. This solution describes a Rossby vortex supported by a parallel flow with a shear. The bifurcation of a shear flow to a set of vortices drifting through the background flow has been observed experimentally. This paper considers the stability conditions of a shear flow in the presence of the Coriolis force
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Harwood Academic Pub.
- Imprint Place
- New York, NY (USA)
- Imprint Title
- Nonlinear and turbulent processes in physics. Volume 1. Nonlinear effects in plasma physics, astrophysics and elementary particle theory
- Journal Page Range
- p. 401-404.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 17080510
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COORDINATES; CORIOLIS FORCE; EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; JUPITER PLANET; PERTURBATION THEORY; PHASE VELOCITY; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES; ROTATION; SHEAR; STABILITY; THICKNESS; VORTICES
- Descriptors DEC
- ATMOSPHERES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIMENSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PLANETS; STATISTICAL MODELS; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; VELOCITY