The stability of filamentary vorticity in two-dimensional geophysical vortex-dynamics models

DOI10.1017/S002211209100352XzbMath0728.76044WikidataQ58396264 ScholiaQ58396264MaRDI QIDQ3352716

D. W. Waugh, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 1991

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

zbMATH Keywords

inverse Laplacianquasi-geostrophic modelbackground shear flow`potential' vorticityGreen-function inversion operatorlinear stability of filamentstwo-dimensional, inviscid, nondivergent models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Cites Work

• Axisymmetrization and vorticity-gradient intensification of an isolated two-dimensional vortex through filamentation
• The repeated filamentation of two-dimensional vorticity interfaces
• An exact local conservation theorem for finite-amplitude disturbances to non-parallel shear flows, with remarks on Hamiltonian structure and on Arnol'd's stability theorems
• Symmetric vortex merger in two dimensions: causes and conditions
• The nonlinear evolution of rotating configurations of uniform vorticity

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