1981 Summer Study Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceangraphic Institution Physics of Convection.

Abstract

Table of Contents: Physics of Convection--The History and Physics of Buoyancy in Fluids, Small Nondissipative Motions and the Anelastic Approximation, Convective Equilibrium and the Warm-Up Problem, Quasianelasticity, Dissipative Boussinesq Dynamics, Convection on Very Large Horizontal Scales; Mildly Boussinesq Convection with Fixed Flux; Double Convection, Reconstitution Method for a Simple Example and the Long Buoyancy Wave, Long Bouyancy Waves and Solar Variability, A Geometrical View of Dynamical Systems, and Seminars and Abstracts of Seminars.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA114366

Entities

People

  • Florence K. Mellor
  • Willem V. R. Malkus

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Convection
  • Difference Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Standing Waves
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics