Elliptical vortices in shear: Hamiltonian moment formulation and Melnikov analysis

DOI10.1063/1.868870zbMath1025.76512MaRDI QIDQ4425536

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Publication date: 3 December 2003

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc793190/

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

70H05: Hamilton's equations

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