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VOLUME 51 (1990) | ISSUE 11 | PAGE 557
Excitation of cyclonic vortex or laboratory model of tropical cyclone
A phenomenon analogous to a tropical cyclone has been observed experimentally. When a plane rotating liquid layer is locally heated from below, an intense cyclonic vortex forms in the central zone. The conditions for the occurrence of this vortex in terms of dimensionless numbers are found.