Dynamics of Rotating Fluids

PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO FLUID DYNAMICS AND WAVES
1: A Qualitative Introduction to Rotating Fluids
2: A Crash Course on Incompressible Fluid Dynamics
3: Waves and Waves in Fluids
PART II THE THEORY OF ROTATING FLUIDS
4: Moving into a Rotating Frame of Reference, the Taylor-Proudman Theorem, and the Formation of Taylor Columns
5: Ekman Boundary Layers
6: Inertial Waves I
7: Inertial Waves II
8: Rossby Waves
9: Rotating, Shallow-Water Flow
10: Precession
11: Instability I
12: Instability II
13: Vortex Breakdown
14: A Glimpse at Rapidly Rotating Turbulence
PART III ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF ROTATING FLOWS IN NATURE
15: Tornadoes, Dust Devils, and Tidal Vortices
16: Tropical Cyclones
17: Convective Motion in the Earth's Core and the Geodynamo
18: Zonal (East-West) Winds and Rossby-Wave Turbulence
19: Accretion Discs in Astrophysics
Vector Identities and Theorems
Navier-Stokes Equation in Cylindrical Polar Coordinates
Geophysical Data
The Physical Properties of Common Fluids
Index

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• Física Matemática
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