Vortex merger in rotating stratified flows

DOI10.1017/S0022112001007364zbMath1028.76053OpenAlexW2080117973MaRDI QIDQ4531434

David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 26 January 2004

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112001007364

zbMATH Keywords

separation distancesymmetric vorticesthree-dimensional quasi-geostrophic fluiduniform-potential-vorticity ellipsoids

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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