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Contour Dynamics for Surface Quasi-Geostrophic Fronts

Analysis of PDEs 2020-08-26 v1 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We use contour dynamics to derive equations of motion for infinite planar surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) fronts, and show that it leads to the same result as a regularization procedure introduced previously by Hunter and Shu (2018).

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@article{arxiv.1907.06593,
  title  = {Contour Dynamics for Surface Quasi-Geostrophic Fronts},
  author = {John K. Hunter and Jingyang Shu and Qingtian Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06593},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures

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