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Because it allows a rigorous separation between reversible and irreversible processes, the concept of available potential energy (APE) has become central to the study of turbulent stratified fluids. In ocean modelling, it is fundamental to…
The possibility of constructing Lorenz's concept of available potential energy (APE) from a local principle has been known for some time, but has received very little attention so far. Yet, the local APE framework offers the advantage of…
The available potential energy (APE) of a fluid can be defined locally in space, providing useful insights into both the energetics and dynamics of stratified flows ranging from three-dimensional turbulence to planetary scale circulations.…
Exact analytical expressions for available potential energy density (APE) and available potential vorticity (APV) are derived from first principles. These APE and APV expressions align with previously known quantities found using…
Turbulent mixing exerts a significant influence on many physical processes in the ocean. In a stably stratified Boussinesq fluid, this irreversible mixing describes the conversion of available potential energy (APE) to background potential…
A key issue in stratified turbulence theory concerns the nature of the link between D(APE), the dissipation rate of available potential energy APE, and W_{r,turbulent}, the turbulent rate of change of background gravitational potential…
In Hamiltonian systems characterized by a degenerate Poisson algebra, we show how to construct a local energy-like quantity that can be used to study diabatic effects on the evolution of the Available Energy of the system, the latter…
Available Potential Energy (APE) dissipation plays a central role in the description of mixing in turbulent stratified fluids. The dominant paradigm is that it converts APE into background gravitational potential energy ${\rm GPE}_r$, and…
This paper shows that the energetics of Boussinesq and anelastic fluids possesses a term that can be identified as the approximation $\delta W_{ba}$ to the compressible work of expansion/contraction $\delta W =-P {\rm d}\upsilon$, where $P$…
The static energy encodes all possible information about the thermodynamics and potential energy (and all related forces) of stratified geophysical fluids. In this paper, we develop a systematic methodology, called static energy…
Explicit expressions of the 3D velocity field in terms of the conserved quantities of ideal fluid thermocline theory, namely Bernoulli function, density, and potential vorticity, are generalised here to a compressible ocean with a realistic…
The available enthalpy is an early form of the modern thermodynamic concept of exergy, which is the generic name for the amount of work obtainable when some matter is brought to a state of equilibrium with its surroundings by means of…
The Boussinesq approximation is a cornerstone of geophysical fluid dynamics, yet its thermodynamic and energetic underpinnings have remained ambiguous. In standard formulations, the links with the fully compressible Navier--Stokes equations…
This paper presents a theory describing the energy budget of a fluid under the Boussinesq approximation: the theory is developed in a manner consistent with the conservation law of mass. It shows that no potential energy is available under…
It is well understood that various alternatives are available within EM theory for the definitions of energy density, momentum transfer, EM stress-energy tensor, and so forth. Although the various options are all compatible with the basic…
In a recent paper, Romps (JAS, vol.72, p.3639-3646, 2015, hereafter R15) argues that the moist-air static energy (MSE) is only approximately conserved for an adiabatically lifted parcel, and that the quantity "MSE - CAPE" could be used as a…
Atmospheric moist available potential energy (MAPE) has been traditionally defined as the potential energy of a moist atmosphere relative to that of the adiabatically sorted reference state defining a global potential energy minimum.…
We consider a rotating non-hydrostatic flow with arbitrary stratification and argue that 1) the appropriate form of potential vorticity (PV) for this system is in terms of isopycnal deviation and 2) the decomposition into energetically…
For the incompressible and the isentropic compressible Euler equations in arbitrary space dimension, we establish the principle of localised relative energy, thus generalising the well-known relative energy method. To this end, we adapt…
The various ingredients of Lorenz theory of available potential energy (APE) are shown to hold the key for understanding how to develop a first-principles theory of lateral stirring and lateral stirring surfaces in the oceans embedded in…