The shape of vortices in quasi-geostrophic turbulence

DOI10.1017/S0022112002002719zbMath1022.76025MaRDI QIDQ4808230

C. R. Koudella, Jean N. Reinaud, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 30 October 2003

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

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-geostrophic approximationcoherent vortical structuresellipsoids of uniform potential vorticityrapidly rotating stably stratified turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45)

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