Streamline topologies for integrable vortex motion on a sphere

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00233-XzbMath0971.76017MaRDI QIDQ1578017

Rangachari Kidambi, Paul K. Newton

Publication date: 24 October 2001

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-2789(99)00233-x

zbMATH Keywords

streamline patterns; point vortices; rotating frame of reference; topological classification; homotopies; linear superposition; spherical topology; completely integrable cases; composition of two-dimensional Euler equations on sphere; global atmosperic weather patterns; inviscid flows on sphere; stagnation point location

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37N10: Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

86A10: Meteorology and atmospheric physics

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