Direct statistical simulation of the Busse annulus

DOI10.1017/JFM.2022.798MaRDI QIDQ5039005zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey S. Oishi, Keaton J. Burns, J. B. Marston, S. M. Tobias

Publication date 10 October 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03699

zbMATH Keywords

bistable multiple jetsbuoyancy-driven instabilityconvectively driven turbulenceequal-time cumulantrotating flowwave-turbulence interaction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07) Convective turbulence (76F35) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

Abstract: We consider direct statistical simulation (DSS) of a paradigm system of convection interacting with mean flows. In the Busse Annulus model zonal jets are generated through the interaction of convectively driven turbulence and rotation; non-trivial dynamics including the emergence of multiple jets and bursting `predator-prey' type dynamics can be found. We formulate the DSS by expanding around the mean flow in terms of equal-time cumulants and arrive at a closed set of equations of motion for the cumulants. Here, we present results using an expansion terminated at the second cumulant (CE2); it is fundamentally a quasi-linear theory. We focus on particular cases including bursting and bistable multiple jets and demonstrate that CE2 can reproduce the results of direct numerical simulation if particular attention is given to symmetry considerations.

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