The merger of vertically offset quasi-geostrophic vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112002001854zbMath1152.76347MaRDI QIDQ4797137

Jean N. Reinaud, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 12 March 2003

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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