Rotating flows around sharp corners and in channel mouths

• Main Author: Cherniawsky, Josef Yuri
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 1985
• Subjects: Hydrodynamics; Rotating masses of fluid; Hudson; Hudson Strait
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25581

This thesis examines buoyancy driven steady flows in mouths of sea straits and around coastal protrusions. At high latitudes, the Coriolis force keeps these currents banked against the coast even around relatively sharp re-entrant (convex) corners with radii of curvature that are comparable to the w...