Tearing of an aligned vortex by a current difference in two-layer quasi-geostrophic flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112093002435zbMath0791.76016MaRDI QIDQ4276047

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Publication date: 20 July 1994

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

zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionssecondary flowinteraction problemcircular vortexcontour dynamics approachdiscrete vortex algorithmpotential vorticity field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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Chaotic oscillations and breakup of quasigeostrophic vortices in the N-layer approximation ⋮ Evolution of a vortex in a strongly stratified shear flow. Part 1. Asymptotic analysis

Cites Work

• The heton, an elementary interaction between discrete baroclinic geostrophic vortices, and its implications concerning eddy heat-flow
• Integrable and chaotic motions of four vortices. I. The case of identical vortices

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