Solitary magnetostrophic Rossby waves in spherical shells

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.743zbMATH Open1460.76930arXiv2007.10741OpenAlexW3106335618MaRDI QIDQ5131306FDOQ5131306

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Publication date: 5 November 2020

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

Abstract: Finite-amplitude hydromagnetic Rossby waves in the magnetostrophic regime are studied. We consider the slow mode, which travels in the opposite direction to the hydrodynamic or fast mode, in the presence of a toroidal magnetic field and zonal flow by means of quasi-geostrophic models for thick spherical shells. The weakly-nonlinear, long waves are derived asymptotically using a reductive perturbation method. The problem at the first order is found to obey a second-order ODE, leading to a hypergeometric equation for a Malkus field and a confluent Heun equation for an electrical-wire field, and is nonsingular when the wave speed approaches the mean flow. Investigating its neutral, nonsingular eigensolutions for different basic states, we find the evolution is described by the Korteweg-de Vries equation. This implies that the nonlinear slow wave forms solitons and solitary waves. These may take the form of a coherent eddy, such as a single anticyclone. We speculate on the relation of the anti-cyclone to the asymmetric gyre seen in Earth's fluid core, and in state-of-the-art dynamo DNS.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10741

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zbMATH Keywords

magnetic fluidsgeodynamowaves in rotating fluids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55)

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