Streamline topologies for integrable vortex motion on a sphere

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00233-XzbMath0971.76017OpenAlexW1984229282MaRDI QIDQ1578017

Rangachari Kidambi, Paul K. Newton

Publication date: 24 October 2001

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-2789(99)00233-x

zbMATH Keywords

streamline patternspoint vorticesrotating frame of referencetopological classificationhomotopieslinear superpositionspherical topologycompletely integrable casescomposition of two-dimensional Euler equations on sphereglobal atmosperic weather patternsinviscid flows on spherestagnation point location

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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