Stationary vortices in three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic shear flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112099005029zbMath0953.76095OpenAlexW2013860846MaRDI QIDQ4951857

Jonas Nycander, Geoffrey R. Burton

Publication date: 25 January 2001

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099005029

zbMATH Keywords

existence theoremexternal shear flowinfinite family of Casimir integralsisovortical flowslocalized stationary vortex solutionsmaximum-energy flowpotential vorticity fieldsstratified rearrangements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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