2006年1月
High-dimensional heteroclinic and homoclinic connections in odd point-vortex ring on a sphere
NONLINEARITY
- 巻
- 19
- 号
- 1
- 開始ページ
- 75
- 終了ページ
- 93
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1088/0951-7715/19/1/005
- 出版者・発行元
- IOP PUBLISHING LTD
We consider the motion of the N-vortex points that are equally spaced along a line of latitude on a sphere with fixed pole vortices, called 'N-ring'. We are especially interested in the case when the number of the vortex points is odd. Since the eigenvalues that determine the stability of the odd N-ring are double, each of the unstable and stable manifolds corresponding to them is two-dimensional. Hence, it is generally difficult to describe the global structure of the manifolds. In this paper, based on the linear stability analysis, we propose a projection method to observe the structure of the iso-surface of the Hamiltonian, in which the orbit of the vortex points evolves. Applying the projection method to the motion of the 3-ring and 5-ring, we characterize the complex evolution of the unstable odd N-ring from the topological structure of the iso-surface of the Hamiltonian.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1088/0951-7715/19/1/005
- ISSN : 0951-7715
- CiNii Articles ID : 120000954753
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000234980600006