Interactions of isolated vortices I: Modons colliding with modons

DOI10.1080/03091928208208956MaRDI QIDQ3942583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors James C. McWilliams, Norman J. Zabusky

Publication date 1982

Published in Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928208208956

zbMATH Keywords

collisions between isolated (i.e. localized) dipolar vortex statesinelastic effectsmodon capture or fusionmodonsquasigeostrophic, equivalent barotropic equationsoliton-likevorticity filamentationvorticity rearrangement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Geophysics (86A99)

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