Vortex dynamics in a shearing zonal flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112090002695MaRDI QIDQ3476444zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Philip S. Marcus

Publication date 1990

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

zbMATH Keywords

interaction energyinitial separationcritical separation distance for vortex mergingself-energy of the vorticesshearing zonal flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

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