Vortex merger in rotating stratified flows

DOI10.1017/S0022112001007364zbMath1028.76053MaRDI QIDQ4531434

David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 26 January 2004

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112001007364

zbMATH Keywords

separation distance; symmetric vortices; three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic fluid; uniform-potential-vorticity ellipsoids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76B70: Stratification effects in inviscid fluids

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