On a wind-driven, double-gyre, quasi-geostrophic ocean model: Numerical simulations and structural analysis

DOI10.1006/jcph.1999.6344zbMath0954.76070OpenAlexW2050091186MaRDI QIDQ1819015

Shouhong Wang, Jie Shen, Theodore Tachim-Medjo

Publication date: 15 February 2000

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1999.6344

zbMATH Keywords

structural stabilitydynamical system theorytwo-dimensional incompressible flowsspectral projection methodstructural transition/bifurcationwind-driven double-gyre mid-latitude quasi-geostrophic ocean modelwind-driven ocean circulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22)

Related Items

Assessing coherent feature kinematics in ocean models, Hopf bifurcation and transition of three-dimensional wind-driven Ocean circulation problem, Efficient spectral-Galerkin methods for systems of coupled second-order equations and their applications, Hopf bifurcations and transitions of two-dimensional quasi-geostrophic flows, Low-Index Equilibrium and Multiple Period-Doubling Cascades to Chaos of Atmospheric Flow in Beta-Plane Channel, Fast spectral solutions of the double-gyre problem in a turbulent flow regime, Spectral methods for numerical relativity

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• MPDATA

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