The elliptical model of two-dimensional vortex dynamics. I: The basic state

DOI10.1063/1.858015zbMath0733.76013OpenAlexW2075076877MaRDI QIDQ3359865

Bernard Legras, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858015

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian formulationnonlinear ordinary differential equationstwo-dimensional fluidnonaxisymmetric vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

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