Vortex pairing in an unstable anticyclonic shear flow: discrete subharmonics of one pendulum day

DOI10.1017/S0022112001004955zbMath0976.76094OpenAlexW2085439248MaRDI QIDQ2744308

Pierre Flament, Laurence Armi, Rick Lumpkin, Jean Tournadre

Publication date: 19 September 2001

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112001004955

zbMATH Keywords

centrifugal instabilityfinite-amplitude anticyclonic vorticesorbital period of vorticespendulum daysubharmonic transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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