Secondary circulation
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Secondary circulation
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In fluid dynamics, a secondary circulation or secondary flow is a weak circulation that plays a key maintenance role in sustaining a stronger primary circulation that contains most of the kinetic energy and momentum of a flow. For example, a tropical cyclone's primary winds are tangential, but its evolution and maintenance against friction involves an in-up-out secondary circulation flow that is also important to its clouds and rain. On a planetary scale, Earth's winds are mostly east–west or zo
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Circulation induced in a rotating system
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_circulation
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2024-01-04T03:13:44Z
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