Sectoral inertial mode of a slowly rotating barotropic star
ID: sectoral-inertial-mode-of-a-slowly-rotating-barotropic-star
For spherical mass density in the anelastic approximation for a rotating barotropic star, the displayed pressure amplitude gives velocity proportional to . This velocity is divergence free and tangent to spherical shells, so its mass-weighted divergence vanishes for every spherical mass density profile. It is an inertial r-mode driven by Coriolis acceleration; with phase its inertial frequency is .
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