The instability of barotropic circular vortices

DOI10.1080/03091928608245893zbMath0616.76057WikidataQ114640380 ScholiaQ114640380MaRDI QIDQ4725944

James C. McWilliams, Peter R. Gent

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928608245893

zbMATH Keywords

perturbation; parallel shear flow; linear instability analysis; zero circulation; internal instability; semicircle theorem; barotropic circular vortices; barotropic vortex; external instability; f-plane quasigeostrophic equations; Finite amplitude, numerical model calculations; finite vertical scale; linear, normal mode instability; mean flow streamfunction profiles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

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