Lim, Chjan C. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 290 (2001) 1, pp. 131-158
The equilibrium statistical mechanics of the energy-enstrophy theory for the barotropic vorticity equation is solved exactly in the sense that a explicitly nonGaussian configurational integral is calculated in closed form. A family of lattice vortex gas models for the barotropic vorticity...