Nonlinear and free-surface effects on the spin-down of barotropic axisymmetric vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112093000060zbMath0807.76087OpenAlexW2142946741MaRDI QIDQ4033417

Leo R. M. Maas

Publication date: 16 May 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112093000060

zbMATH Keywords

shocknonlinear wavesazimuthal velocity profilecyclonic/anticyclonic vorticesparabolic bottomRayleigh's kinematical criterion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

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