A Hamiltonian structure with contact geometry for the semi-geostrophic equations

DOI10.1017/S0022112094004441zbMath0815.76022MaRDI QIDQ4318529

Ian Roulstone, John Norbury

Publication date: 23 February 1995

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

zbMATH Keywords

contact geometrysymplectic algorithmLagrangian and Eulerian kinematic structureslinearized vorticity advection representationreduced non-canonical Hamiltonian structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99)

Related Items (11)

The semigeostrophic equations discretized in reference and dual variables ⋮ The design of conservative finite element discretisations for the vectorial modified KdV equation ⋮ Two discrete models for semi-geostrophic dynamics ⋮ Two discrete models for semi-geostrophic dynamics ⋮ Quantization of contact manifolds and thermodynamics ⋮ Conservative Galerkin methods for dispersive Hamiltonian problems ⋮ Extended-geostrophic Hamiltonian models for rotating shallow water motion ⋮ Contact geometry and thermodynamics ⋮ An adaptive conservative moving mesh method ⋮ Dirac-bracket approach to nearly geostrophic Hamiltonian balanced models ⋮ Contact variational integrators

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• A nonlinear Hamiltonian structure for the Euler equations
• Reduction of symplectic manifolds with symmetry
• Generalised Lagrangian Solutions for Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows
• Symplectic integration of Hamiltonian systems
• New equations for nearly geostrophic flow
• Nonlinear stability analysis of inviscid flows in three dimensions: Incompressible fluids and barotropic fluids
• Semigeostrophic theory as a Dirac-bracket projection
• Explicit Lie-Poisson integration and the Euler equations

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