Symmetry justification of Lorenz' maximum simplification

DOI10.1007/S11071-009-9634-5MaRDI QIDQ623861zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Bihlo, R. O. Popovych

Publication date 8 February 2011

Published in Nonlinear Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4061

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations (34C14)

Abstract: In 1960 Edward Lorenz (1917-2008) published a pioneering work on the `maximum simplification' of the barotropic vorticity equation. He derived a coupled three-mode system and interpreted it as the minimum core of large-scale fluid mechanics on a `finite but unbounded' domain. The model was obtained in a heuristic way, without giving a rigorous justification for the chosen selection of modes. In this paper, it is shown that one can legitimate Lorenz' choice by using symmetry transformations of the spectral form of the vorticity equation. The Lorenz three-mode model arises as the final step in a hierarchy of models constructed via the component reduction by means of symmetries. In this sense, the Lorenz model is indeed the `maximum simplification' of the vorticity equation.

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