The critical merger distance between two co-rotating quasi-geostrophic vortices

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 522, Issue , 2005, Pages 357-381

  Reinaud, Jean N ^a   Dritschel, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASPECT RATIO; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EQUILIBRIUM STATES; LINEAR STABILITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC VORTICES;

VORTEX FLOW;

FLUID MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; STABILITY; VORTEX;

FLUID MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL; VORTEX;

EID: 13444293042     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112004002022     Document Type: Article

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