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The structure of the jet-stream in a rotating fluid with a horizontal temperature gradient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Ruth H. Rogers
Ruth H. Rogers
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
Now at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants.
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Abstract

The jet-stream in a rotating fluid is treated as a thermal boundary layer, but viscous effects are omitted from the first approximation. A theoretical justification for this treatment is presented, and a particular solution of the resulting equations is found. This solution is shown to give a reasonable picture of the flow in the neighbourhood of the stream far from solid boundaries.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1959 , pp. 41 - 59
Copyright
© 1959 Cambridge University Press

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