“…The general problem of description of the motion of two axisymmetric vortices and, in particular, their leapfrogging motion, was considered in several publications (see Boyarintsev et al 1985, Brutyan and Krapivskii 1984, Gurzhii et al 1988, Lamb 1932. A more detailed list of references and historical comments can be found in Meleshko (2010).…”