Formation of vortex clusters on a sphere

Vortex Streets on a Sphere

Motion of vortex sources on a plane and a sphere

The Equations of motion of vortex sources (examined earlier by Fridman and Polubarinova) are studied, and the problems of their being Hamiltonian and integrable are discussed. A system of two vortex sources and three sources-sinks was examined. Their behavior was found to be regular. Qualitative analysis of this system was made, and the class of Liouville integrable systems is considered. Parti...

Von Kármán vortex streets on the sphere

We consider streamline patterns associated with single and double von Kármán point vortex streets on the surface of a nonrotating sphere, with and without pole vortices. The full family of streamline patterns are identified and the topological bifurcations from one pattern to another are depicted as a function of latitude and pole strength. The process involves first finding appropriate vortex ...

Wave and vortex dynamics on the surface of a sphere

Motivated by the observed potential vorticity structure of the stratospheric polar vortex, we study the dynamics of linear and nonlinear waves on a zonal vorticity interface in a two-dimensional barotropic flow on the surface of a sphere (interfacial Rossby waves). After reviewing the linear problem, we determine, with the help of an iterative scheme, the shapes of steadily propagating nonlinea...

Stochastic theory of quantum vortex on a sphere.

A stochastic theory is presented for a quantum vortex in superfluid films coated on a two-dimensional sphere S^{2}. The starting point is the canonical equation of motion (Kirchhoff equation) for a point vortex, which is derived using the time-dependent Landau-Ginzburg theory. The vortex equation, which is equivalent to the spin equation, turns out to be the Langevin equation in presence of ran...