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Spontaneous Formation of Columnar Vortices

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 نشر من قبل Jared Whitehead
 تاريخ النشر 2012
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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A fluid dynamics video of the rotating, weakly stratified Boussinesq equations is presented that illustrates the spontaneous formation of columnar vortices in the presence of stochastic, white noise forcing.

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