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A laminar planetary jet

Published:1960-04 Issue:4 Volume:7 Page:632-638
ISSN:0022-1120
Container-title:Journal of Fluid Mechanics
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Fluid Mech.

Author:

Long Robert R.

Abstract

A theory of a jet in a rotating, viscous fluid is developed. It is suggested that it may be related to a jet observed in an experiment with a rotating spherical shell of liquid and, in addition, may partly explain the existence of the subsurface equatorial current in the Pacific Ocean. The fundamental physical idea is that of a balance of vorticity brought into the jet by advection and diffused by friction. The necessary approximations are borrowed from boundary-layer theory. The linear case is solved completely and inferences about the non-linear jet are obtained by dimensional reasoning.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics

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