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This chapter is concerned with the dynamics of fluids in rotating systems. This branch of fluid mechanics has developed rapidly in recent years as an obvious consequence of interest in geophysical flow problems. Evaluation of the parameters shows that the motions, particularly on the large scale, of the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and core and of stars and galaxies will all exhibit the effects discussed in this chapter. The rotation gives rise to a range of new phenomena; here we consider a small selection of these.
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Tritton, D.J. (1977). Flow in Rotating Fluids. In: Physical Fluid Dynamics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9992-3_15
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