Nonpositive curvature of the quantomorphism group and quasigeostrophic motion

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2020.101698zbMATH Open1458.35338OpenAlexW3097706771WikidataQ115354687 ScholiaQ115354687MaRDI QIDQ1995656FDOQ1995656

Authors: Jae Min Lee, Stephen C. Preston 

Publication date: 24 February 2021

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we compute the sectional curvature of the quantomorphism group $mathcal{D}_q(M)$ whose geodesic equation is the quasi-geostrophic (QG) equation in geophysics and oceanography, for flows with a stream function depending on only one variable. Using this explicit formula, we will also derive a criterion for the curvature operator to be nonpositive and discuss the role of the Froude number and the Rossby number on curvature. The main technique to obtain a usable formula is a simplification of Arnold's general formula in the case where a vector field is close to a Killing field, and then use the Green's function explicitly. We show that nonzero Froude number and Rossby numbers both tend to stabilize flows in the Lagrangian sense.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10256

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zbMATH Keywords

quantomorphism groupquasi-geostrophic equationnonpositive sectional curvatureHasegawa-Mima equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Dimensional analysis and similarity applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M55)

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