Viscous perturbations of vorticity-conserving flows and separatrix splitting

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/11/1/005zbMath0913.76014OpenAlexW1998992542WikidataQ60143939 ScholiaQ60143939MaRDI QIDQ4381845

Christopher K. R. T. Jones, Sanjeeva Balasuriya, Björn Sandstede

Publication date: 25 May 1999

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4a21aac83851f1cb9af2b1834205eaf45645dd75

zbMATH Keywords

forcingMelnikov functionperturbation methodssplitting of separatricesLagrangian transporttwo-dimensional vorticesextended Melnikov theorymeandering ocean jet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40)

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