Evolution of isolated vortices in a rotating fluid of finite depth

DOI10.1017/S0022112098003693zbMath0935.76091OpenAlexW2074006388MaRDI QIDQ4262297

George F. Carnevale, Paolo Orlandi

Publication date: 12 September 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098003693

zbMATH Keywords

centrifugal instabilitybarotropic instabilitybottom Ekman boundary layerformation of multipolar vortex statesmonopolar isolated vorticesvortex columnsvorticity gradients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

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