The dynamics of the gradient of potential vorticity

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/17/172001MaRDI QIDQ3560979zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. D. Holm, John D. Gibbon

Publication date 17 May 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1476

zbMATH Keywords

hydrographyhydrologymagnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamicsmeteorology and atmospheric physicsNavier-Stokes equationsoceanographyStokes and Navier-Stokes equationsviscous vortex flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Abstract: The transport of the potential vorticity gradient $$ along surfaces of constant temperature $heta$ is investigated for the stratified Euler, Navier-Stokes and hydrostatic primitive equations of the oceans and atmosphere using the divergenceless flux vector $$, for any smooth function $Q(q)$. The flux $$ is shown to satisfy ${\displaystyle }$ partial_t�dB - {curl} (�U imes�dB) = - �nabla�ig[qQ'(q) {div} �U�ig] imes�nabla heta, ${\displaystyle }$ where $$ is a formal transport velocity of PV flux. While the left hand side of this expression is reminiscent of the frozen-in magnetic field flux in magnetohydrodynamics, the non-zero right hand side means that $$ is not frozen into the flow of $$ when $$. The result may apply to measurements of potential vorticity and potential temperature at the tropopause.

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