On the nature of vortex interactions and models in unforced nearly-inviscid two-dimensional turbulence

DOI10.1063/1.868896zbMath1086.76035MaRDI QIDQ4426399

Norman J. Zabusky, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868896

zbMATH Keywords

vortex patches; singular vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76F99: Turbulence

76D17: Viscous vortex flows

76M23: Vortex methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

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