Destructive interactions between two counter-rotating quasi-geostrophic vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112009990954zbMath1183.76733MaRDI QIDQ3550419

Jean N. Reinaud, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 31 March 2010

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

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