Finite-amplitude evolution of two-layer geostrophic vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112088003271zbMath0658.76102MaRDI QIDQ3807815

Karl Helfrich, Uwe Send

Publication date: 1988

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

zbMATH Keywords

linear stability analysis`heton' cloudsamplitude vacillationcircular two-layer quasi-geostrophic vorticescontour dynamics calculationsfinite-amplitude evolutionpiecewise uniform potential vorticityweakly supercritical regime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• Regularization of contour dynamical algorithms. I. Tangential regularization
• The nonlinear dynamics of baroclinic wave ensembles
• Contour dynamics for the Euler equations in two dimensions

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