Slow integral manifolds for Lagrangian fluid dynamics in unsteady geophysical flows (Q2381561)

The Lagrangian motion of fluid particles in unsteady gravity currents in geophysical flows (especially vertical motion of fluid particles) is described in terms of a slow-fast multiscale non autonomous system of ordinary differential equations. To this system the reduction procedure is applied, so that a non\-autonomous system on a center-like nonautonomous invariant manifold (slow-manifold) arises. An algorithm for constructing the above manifold is presented that is applicable to systems which satisfy conditions being true only locally in space (as in many physical cases). An application of this abstract scheme is given to an approximate Lagrangian model of gravity currents.