Vortex merging in quasi-geostrophic flows

DOI10.1017/S0022112000008442zbMath0955.76018OpenAlexW2020412799MaRDI QIDQ4500147

Jost von Hardenberg, Alexander F. Shchepetkin, Antonello Provenzale, James C. McWilliams, Jeffrey B. Weiss

Publication date: 27 February 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112000008442

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-geostrophic flowsnumerical simulationssymmetric vortex mergersecondary instabilitiesbaroclinic vorticescritical merging distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

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