Jets and large-scale vortices in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

2017/11/08 by Céline Guervilly, David W. Hughes · 31 citations
Computer Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Convection #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Natural convection #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes #Planar #Rayleigh–Bénard convection #Tourbillon #Vortex #astro-ph.EP #physics.flu-dyn #physics.geo-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevfluids.2.113503

published in Physical Review Fluids 2(11) (American Physical Society) · submitted to Physical Review Fluids

arxiv created 2017/11/08 · openalex created_date 2017/11/17 · openalex publication_date 2017/11/28 · arxiv updated 2017/12/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Large-scale features in rotating convection can take the form of either jets or coherent vortices. Numerical simulations of horizontally anisotropic planar rotating convection reveal the interaction between jets and vortices and show how these typically co-exist.

Citations

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