Interaction between two quasi-geostrophic vortices of unequal potential vorticity

DOI10.1017/S0022112007000018zbMATH Open1133.76012OpenAlexW2135642876WikidataQ59198042 ScholiaQ59198042MaRDI QIDQ5458053FDOQ5458053

Ersin Özuğurlu, Jean N. Reinaud, David G. Dritschel

Publication date: 10 April 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112007000018

zbMATH Keywords

equilibrium stateslinear stabilityasymptotic method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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• Models of interacting pairs of thin, quasi-geostrophic vortices: steady-state solutions and nonlinear stability
• Vortex merger in surface quasi-geostrophy
• Quasi-geostrophic vortex vertical alignment in near collapse interactions
• The stability and the nonlinear evolution of quasi-geostrophic hetons
• The interaction of two asymmetric quasi-geostrophic vortex patches
• Tearing of an aligned vortex by a current difference in two-layer quasi-geostrophic flow
• The alignment of two three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic vortices
• Formation of small-scale vortices in the core of a large merged vortex
• The merger of geophysical vortices at finite Rossby and Froude number
• The merger of two three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic baroclinic tripolar eddies
• Vortex merger near a topographic slope in a homogeneous rotating fluid
• Destructive interactions between two counter-rotating quasi-geostrophic vortices
• A 3-D minimum-enstrophy vortex in stratified quasi-geostrophic flows
• The interaction of two co-rotating quasi-geostrophic vortices in the vicinity of a surface buoyancy filament

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