Efficient computation of null geodesics with applications to coherent vortex detection

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2016.0807MaRDI QIDQ4647161zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mattia Serra, G. Haller

Publication date 4 January 2019

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09504

zbMATH Keywords

closed null geodesicscoherent vorticesgeodesic flowsocean surface flowstransport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Abstract: Recent results suggest that boundaries of coherent fluid vortices (elliptic coherent structures) can be identified as closed null-geodesics of appropriate Lorentzian metrics defined on the flow domain. Here we derive an automated method for computing such null-geodesics based on the geometry of the underlying geodesic flow. Our approach simplifies and improves existing procedures for computing variationally defined Eulerian and Lagrangian vortex boundaries. As an illustration, we compute objective vortex boundaries from satellite-inferred ocean velocity data. A MATLAB implementation of our method is available as supplementary material.

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