Scattering of an eddy advected by a current towards a topographic obstacle

DOI10.1017/S0022112099006795zbMath0971.76019OpenAlexW2100076030MaRDI QIDQ4489292

Melvin E. Stern

Publication date: 24 October 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099006795

zbMATH Keywords

contour dynamicsscatteringinviscid fluidrigid circular cylindercentroid invariance theoremcircularly symmetric barotropic eddyeddy advectionpiecewise-uniform vorticityquasi-geostrophic baroclinic eddiestopographic obstacle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Vortex methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M23)

Related Items (2)

Long-range interaction and elastic collisions of isolated vortices ⋮ The evolution of an initially circular vortex near an escarpment. I: Analytical results.

This page was built for publication: Scattering of an eddy advected by a current towards a topographic obstacle