Vortices on a sphere

G. Alobaidi Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates E-mail: [email protected]

M.C. Haslam Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada E-mail: [email protected]

R. Mallier Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We consider flows on a spherical surface and use a streamfunction formulation to derive a nonlinear equation governing steady‐state flows in that geometry. We present some new vortex solutions to this equation.

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