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stratorotational

stratorotational adjective: relating to the rotation of concentric layers of fluid.

Adjective

stratorotational (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the rotation of concentric layers of fluid
    • The primary instability of the laminar state leads not to axisymmetric Taylor vortex flow but to the non-axisymmetric {\it stratorotational instability} (SRI), so named by Shalybkov and R\"udiger (2005).2016, Ruy Ibanez, Harry L. Swinney, Bruce Rodenborn, “Observations of the stratorotational instability in rotating concentric cylinders”, in arXiv

Origin of stratorotational

From strato- + rotational.

Questions about stratorotational

What does stratorotational mean?
Stratorotational means relating to the rotation of concentric layers of fluid.
What part of speech is stratorotational?
Stratorotational is an adjective.

Words near stratorotational in the dictionary

  1. stratopause
  2. stratopauses
  3. stratophenetic
  4. stratoplane
  5. stratoplanes
  6. stratorotational
  7. stratose
  8. stratosphere
  9. stratospheres
  10. stratospheric
  11. stratospherically

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