Libration-induced mean flow in a spherical shell

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.604MaRDI QIDQ5406582zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alban Sauret, Stéphane Le Dizès

Publication date 1 April 2014

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1433

zbMATH Keywords

boundary layersgeophysical and geological flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

Abstract: We investigate the flow in a spherical shell subject to a time harmonic oscillation of its rotation rate, also called longitudinal libration, when the oscillation frequency is larger than twice the mean rotation rate. In this frequency regime, no inertial waves are directly excited by harmonic forcing. We show however that it can generate through non-linear interactions in the Ekman layers a strong mean zonal flow in the interior. An analytical theory is developed using a perturbative approach in the limit of small libration amplitude $epsilon$ and small Ekman number $E$. The mean flow is found to be at leading order an azimuthal flow which scales as the square of the libration amplitude and only depends on the cylindrical-radius coordinate. The mean flow also exhibits a discontinuity across the cylinder tangent to the inner sphere. We show that this discontinuity can be smoothed through multi-scale Stewartson layers. The mean flow is also found to possess a weak axial flow which scales as $O(epsilo{n}^2{E}^{5/42})$ in the Stewartson layers. The analytical solution is compared to axisymmetric numerical simulations and a good agreement is demonstrated.

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