Structure formation in a zonal barotropic current: a treatment via the centre manifold reduction

DOI10.1098/rspa.1999.0391zbMath0954.76028MaRDI QIDQ4262177

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Publication date: 29 November 1999

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1999.0391

zbMATH Keywords

critical Reynolds number; completely integrable system; center manifold reduction; quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity equation; normal form analysis; \(f\) plane; bifurcating equilibrium states; full classification of bifurcating solutions; jet-like barotropic currents; permanent wave solutions; reversible 1:1 resonance; viscous barotropic zonal current

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

37N10: Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

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