Rossby and drift wave turbulence and zonal flows: the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima model and its extensions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSREP.2015.10.009zbMATH Open1357.76011arXiv1407.1896OpenAlexW3103683017MaRDI QIDQ516660FDOQ516660

Authors: Colm Connaughton, Brenda Quinn, Sergey Nazarenko 

Publication date: 15 March 2017

Published in: Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A detailed study of the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima model and its extensions is presented. These simple nonlinear partial differential equations suggested for both Rossby waves in the atmosphere and also drift waves in a magnetically-confined plasma exhibit some remarkable and nontrivial properties, which in their qualitative form survive in more realistic and complicated models, and as such form a conceptual basis for understanding the turbulence and zonal flow dynamics in real plasma and geophysical systems. Two idealised scenarios of generation of zonal flows by small-scale turbulence are explored: a modulational instability and turbulent cascades. A detailed study of the generation of zonal flows by the modulational instability reveals that the dynamics of this zonal flow generation mechanism differ widely depending on the initial degree of nonlinearity. A numerical proof is provided for the extra invariant in Rossby and drift wave turbulence -zonostrophy and the invariant cascades are shown to be characterised by the zonostrophy pushing the energy to the zonal scales. A small scale instability forcing applied to the model demonstrates the well-known drift wave - zonal flow feedback loop in which the turbulence which initially leads to the zonal flow creation, is completely suppressed and the zonal flows saturate. The turbulence spectrum is shown to diffuse in a manner which has been mathematically predicted. The insights gained from this simple model could provide a basis for equivalent studies in more sophisticated plasma and geophysical fluid dynamics models in an effort to fully understand the zonal flow generation, the turbulent transport suppression and the zonal flow saturation processes in both the plasma and geophysical contexts as well as other wave and turbulence systems where order evolves from chaos.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1896

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zbMATH Keywords

Rossby wavesmodulational instabilitydrift wavesinstability forcingnonlocal turbulencetriple cascadezonal flowzonostrophy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Transition to turbulence (76F06)

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