Equilibria and condensates in Rossby and drift wave turbulence

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AC3946zbMATH Open1499.76051arXiv2108.08349OpenAlexW3212735168MaRDI QIDQ5049487FDOQ5049487

Authors: Jonathan Skipp, Sergey Nazarenko 

Publication date: 11 November 2022

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the thermodynamic equilibrium spectra of the Charney- Hasegawa-Mima (CHM) equation in its weakly nonlinear limit. In this limit, the equation has three adiabatic invariants, in contrast to the two invariants of the 2D Euler or Gross-Pitaevskii equations, which are examples for comparison. We explore how the third invariant considerably enriches the variety of equilibrium spectra that the CHM system can access. In particular we characterise the singular limits of these spectra in which condensates occur, i.e. a single Fourier mode (or pair of modes) accumulate(s) a macroscopic fraction of the total invariants. We show that these equilibrium condensates provide a simple explanation for the characteristic structures observed in CHM systems of finite size: highly anisotropic zonal flows, large-scale isotropic vortices, and vortices at small scale. We show how these condensates are associated with combinations of negative thermodynamic potentials (viz. temperature).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08349

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zbMATH Keywords

drift wave turbulencezonal flowswave turbulencethermodynamic equilibriafinite-size condensationRossby turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05)

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