Head-on collisions between two quasi-geostrophic hetons in a continuously stratified fluid

DOI10.1017/jfm.2015.422zbMath1360.86016OpenAlexW2253347328MaRDI QIDQ2797510

Xavier Carton, Jean N. Reinaud

Publication date: 5 April 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00277/38796/

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamicsquasi-geostrophic flowsgeophysical and geological flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

Related Items (1)

The interaction between two oppositely travelling, horizontally offset, antisymmetric quasi-geostrophic hetons

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