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正压β平面turbulence中弱急流的统计状态动力学

Statistical state dynamics of weak jets in barotropic beta-plane turbulence

Nikolaos A. Bakas, Navid C. Constantinou, Petros J. Ioannou

摘要:

正压设置中的纬向急流是通过均匀湍流状态的流动形成不稳定性(“纬向不稳定性”)从均匀湍流中产生的,这种不稳定性随着湍流强度的增加而发生。这已经证明了使用统计状态动力学(SSD)的框架与封闭在二阶。此外,它表明,对于小的超临界流动形成的不稳定性遵循金兹伯格-朗道(G-L)动力学。在这里,SSD框架是用来研究这种流动形成的不稳定性的平衡小超临界。首先,我们比较了弱非线性G-L动力学的预测完全非线性SSD动力学关闭在二阶参数范围很广。一个新的分支的射流平衡揭示,是不连续连接的G-L分支。这个新的分支在弱超临界涉及射流与更大的振幅相比的G-L分支。此外,这个新的分支继续甚至亚临界值的线性流动形成的不稳定性。从而揭示了均匀湍流中一种新的非线性流动形成不稳定性。其次,我们研究了线性流动形成不稳定性和新的非线性流动形成不稳定性如何平衡。我们确定的物理过程的射流平衡,以及在每个过程中作出贡献的涡的类型。第三,我们提出了一个修改的扩散系数的G-L动力学,是能够捕获的非对称演化弱射流的尺度比边缘尺度(边带不稳定性)的线性流动形成的不稳定性。

英文摘要:

Zonal jets in a barotropic setup emerge out of homogeneous turbulence through a flow-forming instability of the homogeneous turbulent state (`zonostrophic instability') which occurs as the turbulence intensity increases. This has been demonstrated using the statistical state dynamics (SSD) framework with a closure at second order. Furthermore, it was shown that for small supercriticality the flow-forming instability follows Ginzburg-Landau (G-L) dynamics. Here, the SSD framework is used to study the equilibration of this flow-forming instability for small supercriticality. First, we compare the predictions of the weakly nonlinear G-L dynamics to the fully nonlinear SSD dynamics closed at second order for a wide ranges of parameters. A new branch of jet equilibria is revealed that is not contiguously connected with the G-L branch. This new branch at weak supercriticalities involves jets with larger amplitude compared to the ones of the G-L branch. Furthermore, this new branch continues even for subcritical values with respect to the linear flow-forming instability. Thus, a new nonlinear flow-forming instability out of homogeneous turbulence is revealed. Second, we investigate how both the linear flow-forming instability and the novel nonlinear flow-forming instability are equilibrated. We identify the physical processes underlying the jet equilibration as well as the types of eddies that contribute in each process. Third, we propose a modification of the diffusion coefficient of the G-L dynamics that is able to capture the asymmetric evolution for weak jets at scales other than the marginal scale (side-band instabilities) for the linear flow-forming instability.

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