A fast contour dynamics method for many-vortex calculations in two-dimensional flows

DOI10.1063/1.858802zbMath0766.76012OpenAlexW2061496298MaRDI QIDQ4036343

David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 16 May 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858802

zbMATH Keywords

rapidly convergent seriesquasigeostrophic flowtruncated seriescontour dynamics/surgery algorithminteracting vortices

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