A generalized action-angle representation of wave interaction in stratified shear flows

DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.719MaRDI QIDQ5226028zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Heifetz, Anirban Guha

Publication date 30 July 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03032

zbMATH Keywords

instabilityHamiltonian theoryshear layers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

Abstract: In this paper we express the linearized dynamics of interacting interfacial waves in stratified shear flows in the compact form of action-angle Hamilton equations. The pseudo-energy serves as the Hamiltonian of the system, the action coordinates are the contribution of the interfacial waves to the wave-action, and the angles are their phases. The term "generalized action-angle" aims to emphasize that the action of each wave is generally time dependent and this allows instability. An attempt is made to relate this formalism to the action at a distance resonance instability mechanism between counter-propagating vorticity waves via the global conservations of pseudo-energy and pseudo-momentum.

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