Chaos in a model of forced quasi-geostrophic flow over topography: an application of Melnikov's method

DOI10.1017/S0022112091002495zbMath0722.76028OpenAlexW2087920472MaRDI QIDQ3210291

J. S. Allen, P. A. Newberger, Roger M. Samelson

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112091002495

zbMATH Keywords

Poincaré sectionstransverse homoclinic orbitstime-periodic forcinghyperbolic periodic orbitchaotic invariant set of solutionscontinental margin with variable topographyidealized model for wind-forced quasi-geostrophic flownon-autonomous system of three-coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equationsone-degree-of- freedom Hamiltonian systemquasi-two-dimensional approximationtopographic scalestopographic wave drag

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Periodic and quasi-periodic flows and diffeomorphisms (37C55)

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