The instability of barotropic circular vortices

DOI10.1080/03091928608245893zbMath0616.76057OpenAlexW2160104496WikidataQ114640380 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

perturbationparallel shear flowlinear instability analysiszero circulationinternal instabilitysemicircle theorembarotropic circular vorticesbarotropic vortexexternal instabilityf-plane quasigeostrophic equationsFinite amplitude, numerical model calculationsfinite vertical scalelinear, normal mode instabilitymean flow streamfunction profiles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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