Spontaneous Formation of Columnar Vortices

2012/10/12 by Jared P. Whitehead, Whitehead, Jared P., Beth Wingate +1
Engineering · Mathematics · #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Navier-Stokes equation solutions #Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1210.3620

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Abstract

A fluid dynamics video of the rotating, weakly stratified Boussinesq equations is presented that illustrates the spontaneous formation of columnar vortices in the presence of stochastic, white noise forcing.

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