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Nonlinear Whirlpools Versus Harmonic Waves in a Rotating Columnof Stratified Fluid
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2013
Abstract
Propagation of nonlinear baroclinic Kelvin waves in a rotating column of uniformlystratified fluid under the Boussinesq approximation is investigated. The model isconstrained by the Kelvin’s conjecture saying that the velocity component normal to theinterface between rotating fluid and surrounding medium (e.g. a seashore) is possibly zeroeverywhere in the domain of fluid motion, not only at the boundary. Three classes ofdistinctly different exact solutions for the nonlinear model are obtained. The obtainedsolutions are associated with symmetries of the Boussinesq model. It is shown that oneclass of the obtained solutions can be visualized as rotating whirlpools along which thepressure deviation from the mean state is zero, is positive inside and negative outside ofthe whirlpools. The angular velocity is zero at the center of the whirlpools and it ismonotonically increasing function of radius of the whirlpools.
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- Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena , Volume 8 , Issue 1: Harmonic analysis , 2013 , pp. 122 - 131
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- © EDP Sciences, 2013
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