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On the motion due to sources and sinks distributed along the vertical boundary of a rotating fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Victor Barcilon
Victor Barcilon
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Abstract

The motion induced by sources and sinks distributed along the vertical side wall of a cylinder filled with fluid and rotating about a vertical axis is considered. Vertical motion, and hence vertical transport, is confined to a vertical boundary layer of thickness E1/3, where E is the Ekman number. The horizontal transport occurs through the interior of the fluid. The Ekman layers do not play any active role in the transport process. The results of a very simple experiment confirm these conclusions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , 24 February 1967 , pp. 551 - 560
Copyright
© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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