Steady-state bifurcation analysis of a strong nonlinear atmospheric vorticity equation

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2015.05.035MaRDI QIDQ2352170zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhi-Min Chen

Publication date 30 June 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0708

zbMATH Keywords

atmospheric vorticity equationLagrange formulationsteady-state bifurcationstrong non-linear equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) PDEs in connection with geophysics (35Q86) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Abstract: The quasi-geostrophic equation or the Euler equation with dissipation studied in the present paper is a simplified form of the atmospheric circulation model introduced by Charney and DeVore [J. Atmos. Sci. 36(1979), 1205-1216] on the existence of multiple steady states to the understanding of the persistence of atmospheric blocking. The fluid motion defined by the equation is driven by a zonal thermal forcing and an Ekman friction forcing measured by $kappa>0$. It is proved that the steady-state solution is unique for $kappa>1$ while multiple steady-state solutions exist for $kappa<kapp{a}_{crit}$ with respect to critical value $kapp{a}_{crit}<1$. Without involvement of viscosity, the equation has strong nonlinearity as its nonlinear part contains the highest order derivative term. Steady-state bifurcation analysis is essentially based on the compactness, which can be simply obtained for semi-linear equations such as the Navier-Stokes equations but is not available for the quasi-geostrophic equation in the Euler formulation. Therefore the Lagrangian formulation of the equation is employed to gain the required compactness.

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