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Dominant structures in jet streams

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A Hamiltonian version has been formulated for the model of axisymmetric equally rotating jet streams with a free boundary. In the framework of this approach, dominant structures, i.e., structure elements appearing in strongly disturbed jet streams at the preturbulent stage of their decay, are studied. It has been shown that compactons, i.e., solution with a compact support, can be such dominant structures. Analysis of the mechanism of the instability of compactons shows the possibility of collapse, which occurs almost without deformation of their shape but leads to the intensification of the vortex sheet at the boundary according to the law (t 0 − t)−1, where t 0 is the collapse time.

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  1. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskiĭ per. 3, Moscow, 109017, Russia

    V. P. Goncharov

  2. UFR de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, Université de Lille 1, 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    V. I. Pavlov

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Original Russian Text © V.P. Goncharov, V.I. Pavlov, 2006, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2006, Vol. 84, No. 7, pp. 459–465.

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Goncharov, V.P., Pavlov, V.I. Dominant structures in jet streams. Jetp Lett. 84, 384–390 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364006190064

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