Strong interactions between two corotating quasi-geostrophic vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112007008373zbMath1128.76013MaRDI QIDQ5440072

Ross R. Bambrey, David Gerard Dritschel, Jean N. Reinaud

Publication date: 31 January 2008

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

zbMATH Keywords

inverse cascadeellipsoidal vorticesself-induced vortex energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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