The critical merger distance between two co-rotating quasi-geostrophic vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112004002022zbMath1065.76093OpenAlexW1970767166MaRDI QIDQ4670942

Jean N. Reinaud, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 23 April 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112004002022

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic solutionlinear stability analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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