Abstract: A laboratory study has been conducted on the deflection of steady and oscillatory free stream currents impinging on two model seamounts of identical shape. The laboratory model includes the effects of background rotation ...

Abstract: Pure oscillatory flow of a rotating, linearly stratified fluid in the vicinity of an isolated topography of revolution is considered in the laboratory. The pertinent dimensionless parameters governing the motion are the ...

Abstract: With the aim of developing increasingly realistic physical models of the interaction of ocean currents with isolated seamounts, laboratory experiments concerning the flow of an oscillatory current past a cosine-squared ...

Abstract: This study is an experimental investigation of impulsively started, linearly stratified flow over long ridges of triangular and cosine-squared cross sections. The experiments employ a rigid-lid boundary confining the fluid ...

Abstract: An analysis concerning the modelling of large-scale atmospheric motions past orographic features in a linearly stratified rotating laboratory experiment is conducted; it is concluded that for an ƒ-plane model the similarity ...

Abstract: The dimensionless governing equations and boundary conditions for the atmosphere are compared with those for a linearly stratified rotating dishpan laboratory experiment; by doing so a set of similarity criteria are ...

Abstract: Laboratory experiments concerned with surface cooling, were conducted to simulate the surface wind patterns and the free atmosphere general circulation in the vicinity of Antarctica. The principal dynamical similarity ...

Abstract: Different modeling approaches are applied to the same geophysical flow in order to assess the ability of laboratory models to provide useful benchmarks in the development of oceanic numerical models. The test case considered ...

Abstract: An integrated set of laboratory and numerical-model experiments has been conducted to understand the development of residual circulation surrounding a coastal canyon and to explore further the degree to which laboratory ...

Abstract: Laboratory experiments were conducted to simulate the diurnal heating-cooling cycle in the vicinity of a ridge of constant cross section. In the model the fluid is a water solution stratified with salt to simulate the ...