Transitions of spherical thermohaline circulation to multiple equilibria

DOI10.1007/S00021-017-0331-8zbMATH Open1458.76046arXiv1706.02115OpenAlexW2623680797MaRDI QIDQ721398FDOQ721398

Authors: Saadet Özer, Taylan Sengul 

Publication date: 19 July 2018

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

Abstract: The main aim of the paper is to investigate the transitions of the thermohaline circulation in a spherical shell in a parameter regime which only allows transitions to multiple equilibria. We find that the first transition is either continuous (Type-I) or drastic (Type-II) depending on the sign of the transition number. The transition number depends on the system parameters and $l_c$, which is the common degree of spherical harmonics of the first critical eigenmodes, and it can be written as a sum of terms describing the nonlinear interactions of various modes with the critical modes. We obtain the exact formulas of this transition number for $l_c=1$ and $l_c=2$ cases. Numerically, we find that the main contribution to the transition number is due to nonlinear interactions with modes having zero wave number and the contribution from the nonlinear interactions with higher frequency modes is negligible. In our numerical experiments we encountered both types of transition for $Le<1$ but only continuous transition for $Le>1$. In the continuous transition scenario, we rigorously prove that an attractor in the phase space bifurcates which is homeomorphic to the 2$l_c$ dimensional sphere and consists entirely of degenerate steady state solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02115

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zbMATH Keywords

spherical harmonicslinear stabilityexchange of stabilitiesdynamic transition theoryphase space attractor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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