Efficient computation of null geodesics with applications to coherent vortex detection

DOI10.1098/rspa.2016.0807zbMath1404.37038arXiv1610.09504OpenAlexW3099969074MaRDI QIDQ4647161

Mattia Serra, György Haller

Publication date: 4 January 2019

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09504

zbMATH Keywords

transportgeodesic flowscoherent vorticesclosed null geodesicsocean surface flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Related Items (4)

Fast and robust computation of coherent Lagrangian vortices on very large two-dimensional domains ⋮ A critical comparison of Lagrangian methods for coherent structure detection ⋮ Barriers to the Transport of Diffusive Scalars in Compressible Flows ⋮ Closed-Null-Geodesics-2D

Uses Software

• Matlab
• GitHub

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