Integrable and chaotic motions of four vortices
Abstract
Conclusive numerical evidence of chaos in the four-vortex problem is presented using the method of Poincaré sections. The problem is formally reduced to a two degrees of freedom hamiltonian. The advection of a passive marker by three vortices displays chaos.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- August 1980
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- Bibcode:
- 1980PhLA...78..297A