Interaction of two equal vortices on a β plane

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1021-1032

  Velasco Fuentes, O U ^a   Velazquez Munoz F A ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WATER TANKS;

VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION;

VORTEX FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 0037992622     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1556293     Document Type: Article

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