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The flow of a stratified fluid over a vertical step

Volume 22 (1970): Issue 5

By: O. K. Jones

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|Jan 1970

Abstract

Long’s linearized model is used to study the two-dimensional flow of an incompressible, inviscid and stably stratified fluid over a step of finite height in a long channel bounded above by a rigid, horizontal lid. The height of this lid is varied in an attempt to determine its effect on the flow and the results, which are obtained for a range of values of the Richardson number, are compared with the observation of a glider pilot, Farley, taken in Switzerland in the lee of the Jura plateau.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v22i5.10242 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 481 - 492

Submitted on: Mar 5, 1970

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Published on: Jan 1, 1970

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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