Higher Order Lamb-Chaplygin Vortices, Chaplygin Antisymmetric Vortices, and Atmospheric Blocking
Fluid Dynamics
2020-05-20 v1
Abstract
The equations describing the two-dimensional vortices first described by Chaplygin in 1899 and 1903 are shown to have solutions of higher order that differ from a simple dipole. It is also shown that for these higher-order vortices a very small asymmetry dramatically changes the topology of the stream function. These vortices could be important for understanding the phenomenon of atmospheric blocking.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2005.08969,
title = {Higher Order Lamb-Chaplygin Vortices, Chaplygin Antisymmetric Vortices, and Atmospheric Blocking},
author = {Gerald E. Marsh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08969},
year = {2020}
}
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21 pages, 16 figures