Inviscid quasi-geostrophic flow over topography: testing statistical mechanical theory

DOI10.1017/S0022112096001565zbMath0859.76032MaRDI QIDQ4714324

Greg Holloway, William J. Merryfield

Publication date: 9 April 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

barotropic flowtopographic turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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Cites Work

• Nonlinear stability and statistical mechanics of flow over topography
• H theorems in statistical fluid dynamics
• Statistical equilibrium states for two-dimensional flows
• Ergodic properties of inviscid truncated models of two-dimensional incompressible flows
• The equilibrium statistical mechanics of simple quasi-geostrophic models
• Two-dimensional turbulence above topography
• Statistical mechanics of Euler equations in two dimensions
• On long-lived vortices in 2-D viscous flows, most probable states of inviscid 2-D flows and a soliton equation
• Inviscid dynamics of two-dimensional turbulence

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