A novel formulation of point vortex dynamics on the sphere: geometrical and numerical aspects

DOI10.1007/s00332-013-9182-5zbMath1347.37132arXiv1211.4560MaRDI QIDQ404307

Joris Vankerschaver, Melvin Leok

Publication date: 4 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4560

zbMATH Keywords

variational methods; symplectic integration; Hopf fibration; point vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

65L06: Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations

70S05: Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems

37M15: Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems

70H03: Lagrange's equations

Uses Software

• Python