Point vortex motion on a sphere with solid boundaries

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 581-588

  Kidambi, R ^a   Newton, P K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL FLOW; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS; VORTEX FLOW;

GEOPHYSICS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 0034128593     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870263     Document Type: Article

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