Point-vortex interaction in an oscillatory deformation field: Hamiltonian dynamics, harmonic resonance and transition to chaos

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 971-995

  Perrot, Xavier ^a   Carton, Xavier ^a  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian system; Orbits; Stability; Two dimensional incompressible flow; Vortex interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149119367     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2009.11.971     Document Type: Article

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