Multipolar vortices in two-dimensional incompressible flows

DOI10.1017/S0022112094001102zbMath0809.76012OpenAlexW1968863918MaRDI QIDQ4313311

Yves G. Morel, Xavier Carton

Publication date: 16 November 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112094001102

zbMATH Keywords

Euler equationbarotropic instabilitycore vortexopposite-sign vorticityunstable piecewise-constant monopoles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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