Balanced ellipsoidal vortex equilibria in a background shear flow at finite Rossby number

DOI10.1017/jfm.2021.759zbMath1496.76162OpenAlexW3200701601MaRDI QIDQ5154782

William J. McKiver

Publication date: 5 October 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.759

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamicsrotating stratified flowquasi-geostrophic theoryanticyclonic ellipsoidcyclonic ellipsoidequilibrium background flow parameterlinear vortex stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Geophysical flows (76U60)

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