Maximum entropy states for rotating vortex patches

DOI10.1063/1.868386zbMath0839.76013OpenAlexW1986506234MaRDI QIDQ4851113

Bruce Turkington, Nathaniel Whitaker

Publication date: 16 June 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868386

zbMATH Keywords

disksymmetrizationcoalescenceconstrained optimization problemstatistical equilibrium problemelliptical vortex patches

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10)

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