The merger of geophysical vortices at finite Rossby and Froude number

DOI10.1017/jfm.2018.367zbMath1404.76062OpenAlexW2807340055WikidataQ114655171 ScholiaQ114655171MaRDI QIDQ4582935

Jean N. Reinaud, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 27 August 2018

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16629

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamicsrotating flowsstratified flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

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