Larry J. Pratt
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Physical Oceanography Department

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Textbook on Rotating Hydraulics
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Preface
Intro Part 1   Introduction
    Fig. I3 Fig. I4 Fig. I5 Fig. I6 Fig. I7 Fig. I8  
    Fig.I3 Fig.I4 Fig.I5 Fig. I6 Fig. I7 Fig. I8  
    Fig. I9 Fig. I10 Fig. I11 Fig. I12 Fig. I13    
    Fig.I9 Fig.I10 Fig.I11 Fig.I12 Fig.I13    
Section 1.1
1.1
 Review of the Hydraulics of Nonrotating Flows
Section 1.2
1.2

The shallow water equations and one-dimensional
wave propagation

Section 1.3
1.3
 Nonlinear steepening and rarefacation
Section 1.4
1.4
 The hydraulics of steady, homogeneous flow over
an obstacle
Section 1.5
1.5
 Hydraulics in Abstract
Section 1.6
1.6
 Hydraulic Jumps, Bores, Rarefaction Waves and
Long's Experiment
Section 1.7
1.7
 Solution to the Initial - Value Problem
Section 1.8
1.8
 Wave reflections and upstream influence in
time-dependent flows
Section 1.9
1.9

Friction and Bottom Drag

Section 1.10
1.10
 Entrainment and Dispersion
Section 2.1
2.1
 The Hydraulics of Homogeneous Flow in a
Rotating Channel
Section 2.2
2.2
 Uniform Potential Vorticity: Boundary Layers and
Kelvin waves
Section 2.3
2.3
 Frontal waves
Section 2.4
2.4
 Steady flow from a deep reservoir
Section 2.5
2.5
 Constant potential vorticity flow from a wide basin:
Gill's model
Section 2.6
2.6
 Uniform potential vorticity flow, revisited
Section 2.7
2.7
 Flow Reversals and Recirculation
Section 2.8
2.8
 Parabolic Bottom
Section 2.9
2.9
 Nonuniform Potential Vorticity
Section 2.10
2.10
 Transport Bounds
Section 2.11
2.11
 Anatomy of an overflow
Section 2.12
2.12
 Outflow Plumes
Section 2.14
2.14
 Closed upstream basins with forcing and dissipation
Section 3.1
3.1
 Time-Dependence and Shocks
Section 3.2
3.2
 Rossby Adjustment: Weakly Nonlinear Behavior
Section 3.4
3.4
 Adjustment to an Obstacle in a Rotating Channel
Section 3.5
3.5
 Shock joining
Section 3.6
3.6
 A Kelvin Bore
Section 3.7
3.7
 Shocks in separated flows
Section 3.8
3.8
 Hydraulic control in a dispersive system: flow over an infinite ridge
Section 4.1
4.1
 Curvature Effects
Section 4.2
4.2
 Coastal upwelling fronts and jets
Section 4.3
4.3

Oblique Shocks and Expansions Fans: The Supercritical
Marine Layer
Section 4.4
4.4
 Expansion Fans and Compressions: Formal Theory
Section 5.1
5.1
 Two-layer Flows in Rotating Channels
Section 5.1
5.2
 Review of the Theory for a Nonrotating Channel
Section 5.3
5.3
 Flow over an obstacle
Section 5.4
5.4
 Steady flow through a pure contraction
Section 5.5
5.5
 Overmixing and maximal flow in estuaries
Section 5.6
5.6
 Overmixing in Inverse Estuaries
Section 5.7
5.7
 Flow Between Two deep Basins
Section 6.1
6.1
 Potential Vorticity Hydraulics
Section 6.2
6.2
 Potential Vorticity Front in a Channel
Section 6.3
6.3
 Zonal jets on a beta plane
Section 6.4
6.4
 A mid-latitude jet
References
References
Appendix B
Appendix B
 The Method of Characteristics in Two Dimensions
Appendix C
Appendix C

The Method of Characteristics for Steady, 2-d,
Shallow Flow with Rotation

 
 
 
 


 

 
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