The roll-up of vorticity strips on the surface of a sphere

DOI10.1017/S0022112092000697zbMath0744.76061MaRDI QIDQ3991450

Lorenzo M. Polvani, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 28 June 1992

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

zbMATH Keywords

stability; planetary atmospheres; barotropic flows; filaments of vorticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

76E99: Hydrodynamic stability

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• Contour dynamics/surgery on the sphere
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• The repeated filamentation of two-dimensional vorticity interfaces
• The nonlinear evolution of rotating configurations of uniform vorticity