Dynamics of a passive tracer in a velocity field of four identical point vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112099005492zbMATH Open0964.76015OpenAlexW2120111694WikidataQ57569618 ScholiaQ57569618MaRDI QIDQ4952004FDOQ4952004

S. Boatto, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

Publication date: 9 May 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099005492

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zbMATH Keywords

mixingconservation lawsvelocity fieldmultipole expansionpassive tracerfour point vorticesdiffusion rateschaotic vortex motionperiodic vortex motionquasi-periodic vortexself-induced advectiontracer phase space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25)

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