Euler equation on a fast rotating sphere-time-averages and zonal flows

DOI10.1016/J.EUROMECHFLU.2012.06.001zbMATH Open1347.86003arXiv1108.2536OpenAlexW2963438028MaRDI QIDQ326089FDOQ326089

Alex Mahalov, Bin Cheng

Publication date: 12 October 2016

Published in: European Journal of Mechanics. B. Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by recent studies in geophysical and planetary sciences, we investigate the PDE-analytical aspects of time-averages for barotropic, inviscid flows on a fast rotating sphere $S^2$. Of particular interests are the incompressible Euler equations. We prove that the finite-time-average of the solution stays close to a subspace of emph{longitude-independent zonal flows}. The intial data can be arbitrarily far away from this subspace. Meridional variation of the Coriolis parameter underlies this phenomenon. Our proofs use Riemannian geometric tools, in particular the Hodge Theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2536

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zbMATH Keywords

Euler equationsbarotropic models on a rapidly rotating spherePDE on surfacesrotating fluidstime-averageszonal flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03) Euler equations (35Q31) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) General questions in geophysics (86A04)

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