The Ekman boundary-layer stress due to flow over a regular array of hills

Autor:	Kenneth A. Mooney, Alan J. Faller
Rok vydání:	1971
Předmět:	Atmospheric Science Ekman layer Meteorology Planetary boundary layer Flow (psychology) Reynolds number Geometry Rotating tank Rotation Stress (mechanics) Boundary layer symbols.namesake symbols Geology
Zdroj:	Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2:83-107
ISSN:	1573-1472 0006-8314
DOI:	10.1007/bf00718090
Popis:	The flow of water over a regular array of hills in a rotating laboratory experiment is studied as an analogue of planetary boundary layers. Gaussian-shaped hills of heighth = 1 cm andh = 1/3 cm covered the floor of a 228 cm diam rotating tank. The characteristic depth of the Ekman layer varied fromD = 0.1 cm toD = 0.3 cm and the Reynolds number for the Ekman layer varied up toRe = 150. The integrated boundary-layer stress as a function ofRe andD/h was determined by the rate of spin-up of the water after a small increase of the rotation rate.
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