Numerical study of elliptical modons using a spectral method

DOI10.1017/S002211209000369XzbMath0715.76007MaRDI QIDQ3201929

John P. Boyd, Hong Ma

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211209000369x

zbMATH Keywords

analytical solution; Earth's rotation; vortex pairs; dynamical structure; modons; exterior irrotational flow; nonzero vorticity; quasi- geostrophic modons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

35Q51: Soliton equations

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