On the inverse cascade and flow speed scaling behaviour in rapidly rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection
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- 3 March 2021
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- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 913
Abstract
Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection is investigated numerically with the use of an asymptotic model that captures the rapidly rotating, small Ekman number limit, , that approaches unity over the investigated range of parameters.Keywords
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