Toward a turbulence constitutive relation for geophysical flows

DOI10.1007/S001620050041MaRDI QIDQ1389996zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. R. Ristorcelli

Publication date 21 April 1999

Published in Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s001620050041

zbMATH Keywords

frame-indifferencegeostrophic balancegeostrophic constrainthorizontal divergencequasi-geostrophic flowsshallow water flowssingle-point second-order closuresstratified flowsTaylor-Proudman theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Review text

This article addresses and resolves the possibility of a constitutive relation for single-point second-order closures for classes of rotating and stratified flows relevant to geophysics. Physical situations in which a geostrophic balance is attained are described. We discuss also closely related issues of frame-indifference, horizontal divergence, and the Taylor-Proudman theorem. It is shown that, in the absence of vortex stretching along the axis of rotation, turbulence is frame-indifferent. Unfortunately, no turbulence closures are consistent with this frame-indifference that is frequently an important feature of rotating or quasi-geostrophic flows. Thus we derive and discuss a geostrophic constraint which ensures that the modeled second-moment equations are frame-invariant, in the appropriate limit. It is shown that rotating, stratified, and shallow water flows are situations in which such a constitutive relation procedure can be useful.

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