Viscous perturbations of vorticity-conserving flows and separatrix splitting

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/11/1/005zbMath0913.76014WikidataQ60143939 ScholiaQ60143939MaRDI QIDQ4381845

Björn Sandstede, Christopher K. R. T. Jones, Sanjeeva Balasuriya

Publication date: 25 May 1999

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4a21aac83851f1cb9af2b1834205eaf45645dd75

zbMATH Keywords

forcing; Melnikov function; perturbation methods; splitting of separatrices; Lagrangian transport; two-dimensional vortices; extended Melnikov theory; meandering ocean jet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

76D99: Incompressible viscous fluids

37J40: Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion

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