Generation of Mean Flows in a Rotating Convection Layer
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The instability of convection rolls in a fluid layer heatet from below is studied in the case where the layer rotates about an axis slightly inclined with respect to the vertical. The inclination destroys the horizontal isotropy of the layer, but the instability of rolls found by Küppers and Lortz [1] is little affected as long as the angle of inclination is small. A new effect is the generation of mean Reynolds stresses by rolls not aligned with the horizontal component of the rotation vector. The mean flow exhibits a vorticity of the same sign as the horizontal component of rotation and agrees qualitatively with the mean flow found in the numerical experiments of Hathaway and Somerville [21.
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