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Axisymmetric inertial oscillations of a fluid in a rotating spherical shell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Keith D. Aldridge
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth and Planetary Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Introduction. This paper is concerned with an interpretation of some experiments on certain axisymmetric inertial oscillations of a rotating fluid in a thick spherical shell. These oscillations are the counterparts to the ones reported by Aldridge and Toomre† (1969) for a full sphere of rotating fluid. A description of the arrangements for both experiments is presented in A & T; some of the measured eigen-frequencies for spherical shells of rotating fluid given by Aldridge (1967) are presented here for comparison with values calculated from a variational principle.

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Research Article
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Copyright © University College London 1972

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