Equilibrium solutions of the shallow water equations
Fluid Dynamics
2009-11-06 v1 Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract
A statistical method for calculating equilibrium solutions of the shallow water equations, a model of essentially 2-d fluid flow with a free surface, is described. The model contains a competing acoustic turbulent {\it direct} energy cascade, and a 2-d turbulent {\it inverse} energy cascade. It is shown, nonetheless that, just as in the corresponding theory of the inviscid Euler equation, the infinite number of conserved quantities constrain the flow sufficiently to produce nontrivial large-scale vortex structures which are solutions to a set of explicitly derived coupled nonlinear partial differential equations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0008236,
title = {Equilibrium solutions of the shallow water equations},
author = {Peter B. Weichman and Dean M. Petrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0008236},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, no figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters