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A note on the spin-up of a stratified fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

James R. Holton  and
Peter H. Stone
James R. Holton
Affiliation:
University of Washington
Peter H. Stone
Affiliation:
Pierce Hall, Harvard University
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Abstract

It is pointed out that recent theoretical results for the spin-up of a continuously stratified fluid with insulating boundary conditions are at variance with experiment. However, it is then shown that the theoretical analysis contains an inconsistent scaling assumption, so that the apparent contradiction is not a real one. The nature of the spin-up as shown by the experiments is briefly described.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , 12 July 1968 , pp. 127 - 129
Copyright
© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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