Quasi-geostrophic shallow-water doubly-connected vortex equilibria and their stability

DOI10.1017/jfm.2013.104zbMath1287.76112OpenAlexW2139017552MaRDI QIDQ5417343

Hanna Płotka, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 21 May 2014

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5172

zbMATH Keywords

contour dynamicsvortex dynamicsrotating flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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