Comparison of variational balance models for the rotating shallow water equations

DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.292MaRDI QIDQ5364823zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Georg A. Gottwald, Marcel Oliver, David G. Dritschel

Publication date 28 September 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05579, http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11100

zbMATH Keywords

rotating flowsshallow water flowsvariational methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

Abstract: We present an extensive numerical comparison of a family of balance models appropriate to the semi-geostrophic limit of the rotating shallow water equations, and derived by variational asymptotics in Oliver (2006) for small Rossby numbers $mathrmRo$. This family of generalized large-scale semi-geostrophic (GLSG) models contains the $L_1$-model introduced by Salmon (1983) as a special case. We use these models to produce balanced initial states for the full shallow water equations. We then numerically investigate how well these models capture the dynamics of an initially balanced shallow water flow. It is shown that, whereas the $L_1$-member of the GLSG family is able to reproduce the balanced dynamics of the full shallow water equations on time scales of $mathcalO(1/mathrmRo)$ very well, all other members develop significant unphysical high wavenumber contributions in the ageostrophic vorticity which spoil the dynamics.

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