Singularity formation during relaxation of jets and fronts toward the state of geostrophic equilibrium

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 415-442

  Le Sommer, J ^a   Medvedev, S B ^b   Plougonven, R ^a   Zeitlin, V ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Fronts; Geostrophic adjustment; Inertia gravity waves; Potential vorticity; Shocks; Singularity formation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

ROTATING SHALLOW WATER;

JETS;

EQUILIBRIUM; JET; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; SHALLOW WATER;

EID: 0041743760     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-5704(03)00050-9     Document Type: Article

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