Investigations of non-hydrostatic, stably stratified and rapidly rotating flows

DOI10.1017/JFM.2016.443MaRDI QIDQ4976776zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Nieves, Ian Grooms, Keith Julien, Jeffrey B. Weiss

Publication date 2 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03108

zbMATH Keywords

geostrophic turbulencequasi-geostrophic flowsrotating flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We present an investigation of rapidly rotating (small Rossby number $Roll1$) and stratified turbulence where the stratification strength is varied from weak (large Froude number $Frgg1$) to strong ($Frll1$). The investigation is set in the context of a reduced model derived from the Boussinesq equations that efficiently retains anisotropic inertia-gravity waves with order-one frequencies and highlights a regime of wave-eddy interactions. Numerical simulations of the reduced model are performed where energy is injected by a stochastic forcing of vertical velocity, which forces wave modes only. The simulations reveal two regimes characterized by the presence of well-formed, persistent and thin turbulent layers of locally-weakened stratification at small Froude numbers, and by the absence of layers at large Froude numbers. Both regimes are characterized by a large-scale barotropic dipole enclosed by small-scale turbulence. When the Reynolds number is not too large a direct cascade of barotropic kinetic energy is observed, leading to total energy equilibration. We examine net energy exchanges that occur through vortex stretching and vertical buoyancy flux and diagnose the horizontal scales active in these exchanges. We find that the baroclinic motions inject energy directly to the largest scales of the barotropic mode, implying that the large-scale barotropic dipole is not the end result of an inverse cascade within the barotropic mode.

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