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Diffusive behavior of transport noise on $\mathbb{S}^2$

Numerical Analysis 2025-08-07 v2 Numerical Analysis Probability Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We investigate theoretically and numerically transport noise-induced diffusion in flows on the sphere. Previous analysis on the torus demonstrated that suitably chosen transport noise in the Euler equations leads to diffusive behavior resembling the Navier--Stokes equations. Here, we analyze dynamics on the sphere with noise-induced differential elliptic operator dissipation and characterize their energy and enstrophy decay properties. Through structure-preserving numerical simulations with the Zeitlin discretization, we demonstrate that appropriately scaled transport noise induces energy dissipation while preserving enstrophy and coadjoint orbits. The presented analysis lays a groundwork for further theoretical investigation of transport noise and supports the calibration of transport noise models as a parametrization for unresolved processes in geophysical fluid simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2508.02707,
  title  = {Diffusive behavior of transport noise on $\mathbb{S}^2$},
  author = {Sagy Ephrati and Erik Jansson and Andrea Papini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02707},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures. All comments are welcome!

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