Environmental Stratified Flows

Environmental Stratified Flows
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9780306480249
ISBN-13 : 0306480247
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Book Synopsis Environmental Stratified Flows by : Roger Grimshaw

Download or read book Environmental Stratified Flows written by Roger Grimshaw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dynamics of flows in density-stratified fluids has been and remains now an important topic for scientific enquiry. Such flows arise in many contexts, ranging from industrial settings to the oceanic and atmospheric environments. It is the latter topic which is the focus of this book. Both the ocean and atmosphere are characterised by the basic vertical density stratification, and this feature can affect the dynamics on all scales ranging from the micro-scale to the planetary scale. The aim of this book is to provide a “state-of-the-art” account of stratified flows as they are relevant to the ocean and atmosphere with a primary focus on meso-scale phenomena; that is, on phenomena whose time and space scales are such that the density stratification is a dominant effect, so that frictional and diffusive effects on the one hand and the effects of the earth’s rotation on the other hand can be regarded as of less importance. This in turn leads to an emphasis on internal waves.


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