2001 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Models for Instability in Geophysical Flows
verfasst von : Roger Grimshaw, Georg Gottwald
Erschienen in: IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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The generation of instability in inviscid, non-diffusive geophysical flows is generically caused by a resonan ce between two wave modes. The weakly nonlinear unfolding of this situation is described in the long-wave regime, using a particular two-layer quasi- geostrophic model as an illust rative example. The outcome is a system of two coupled Korteweg-de Vries equations. This system contains a very rich solution set, consisting typically of solit ary wave interactions. We will describe some numerical solutions of the coupled Korteweg-de Vries equations, supplemented by perturbation analyses. We also report on some preliminary analogous numerical simulations of the full two-layer quasi-geostrophic system.