Barotropic instability of shear flows

DOI10.1111/SAPM.12297zbMATH Open1445.76044arXiv1801.00950OpenAlexW2782347074MaRDI QIDQ5114468FDOQ5114468

Hao Zhu, Jincheng Yang, Zhiwu Lin

Publication date: 24 June 2020

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider barotropic instability of shear flows for incompressible fluids with Coriolis effects. For a class of shear flows, we develop a new method to find the sharp stability conditions. We study the flow with Sinus profile in details and obtain the sharp stability boundary in the whole parameter space, which corrects previous results in the fluid literature. Our new results are confirmed by more accurate numerical computation. The addition of the Coriolis force is found to bring fundamental changes to the stability of shear flows. Moreover, we study dynamical behaviors near the shear flows, including the bifurcation of nontrivial traveling wave solutions and the linear inviscid damping. The first ingredient of our proof is a careful classification of the neutral modes. The second one is to write the linearized fluid equation in a Hamiltonian form and then use an instability index theory for general Hamiltonian PDEs. The last one is to study the singular and non-resonant neutral modes using Sturm-Liouville theory and hypergeometric functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00950

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationHamiltonian structureinstability indexCoriolis effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07) Geophysical flows (76U60)

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