Interaction between vortices and waves in a simple model of geophysical flow

DOI10.1063/1.857757zbMath0699.76029OpenAlexW2045173182MaRDI QIDQ3478112

George I. Bell

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.857757

zbMATH Keywords

Coriolis forcequasigeostrophic flowsattracts point vorticesbasic vortex-wave interactioninitially horizontal interfaceradiating Rossby wavesstable vortex strip

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Cites Work

• Dynamics of vorticity fronts
• Nonlinear stability bounds for inviscid, two-dimensional, parallel or circular flows with monotonic vorticity, and the analogous three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic flows
• Rigorous bounds on the nonlinear saturation of instabilities to parallel shear flows
• Evolution of locally unstable shear flow near a wall or a coast
• Homogenization of potential vorticity in planetary gyres

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