Two-layer geostrophic vortex dynamics. Part 1. Upper-layer V-states and merger

DOI10.1017/S0022112089002016zbMath0676.76093OpenAlexW2153443779MaRDI QIDQ3832278

Glenn R. Flierl, Norman J. Zabusky, Lorenzo M. Polvani

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112089002016

zbMATH Keywords

two-layer rotating fluidequilibrium solutionsconstant-potential-vorticity lower layerquasi- geostrophic equationstwo-dimensional contour dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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