Vortex dynamics in a shearing zonal flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112090002695zbMath0698.76030MaRDI QIDQ3476444

Philip S. Marcus

Publication date: 1990

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

zbMATH Keywords

interaction energyinitial separationcritical separation distance for vortex mergingself-energy of the vorticesshearing zonal flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

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