Elliptical vortices in shear: Hamiltonian moment formulation and Melnikov analysis

DOI10.1063/1.868870zbMath1025.76512OpenAlexW2085041328MaRDI 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

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Hamilton's equations (70H05)

Related Items (7)

Multivariate elliptical truncated moments ⋮ Weakly nonlinear dynamics in noncanonical Hamiltonian systems with applications to fluids and plasmas ⋮ New global solutions of the Jacobi partial differential equations ⋮ Hamiltonian moment reduction for describing vortices in shear ⋮ Asymmetric transport and non-Gaussian statistics of passive scalars in vortices in shear ⋮ Deformation of vortex patches by boundaries ⋮ New four-dimensional solutions of the Jacobi equations for Poisson structures

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