Classification of robust isolated vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics

DOI10.1017/S0022112097007933zbMath0912.76011OpenAlexW2092627905MaRDI QIDQ4400011

Joel Sommeria, Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Publication date: 5 May 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112097007933

zbMATH Keywords

energyEuler equationangular momentumcontrol parameterstream functioncirculationlinearized equationslocal entropy maximumstatistical equilibrium statesisolated vorticity structuresmaximum-entropy bubble

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10)

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