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On the spatial oscillations of a horizontally heated rotating fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

P. G. Daniels  and
K. Stewartson
P. G. Daniels
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
K. Stewartson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
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Summary

A laboratory model simulating aspects of oceanic or atmospheric circulationconsists of a rotating fluid annulus which is subject to a temperature gradient on the lower surface and is insulated on the inner and outer curved walls and on the top surface. A theoretical study of the resulting steady axi-symmetric fluid motion in the limit of small Ekman number, E, by Daniels (2) indicated that if an appropriate convective parameter is sufficiently large, oscillatory solutions are generated in the layer which is located on the hotter of the two side-walls, which do not decay into the geostrophic interior. The present paper resolves this difficulty by using the method of multiple scales to trace the development of the oscillatory solutions in the interior of the fluid. This leads to a consistent overall flow pattern throughout the annulus, except at an infinite set of discrete values of the convective parameter at which resonance is predicted.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , March 1977 , pp. 325 - 349
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1977

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