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Motivated by applications to underwater explosions and volcanic eruptions, this paper considers the evolution of an initial pressure disturbance in the ocean, including effects due to the dynamic and static compression of water and the free…

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We describe and illustrate a mechanism whereby convective aggregation and eastward propagating equatorial disturbances, similar in some respects to the Madden--Julian oscillation, arise. We construct a simple, explicit system consisting…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Geoffrey K Vallis , James Penn

We consider an instability of rapidly rotating neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) with respect to excitation of r-modes (which are analogous to Earth's Rossby waves controlled by the Coriolis force). We argue that finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-22 Mikhail E. Gusakov , Andrey I. Chugunov , Elena M. Kantor

Recent numerical investigations of wave propagation near coronal magnetic null points (McLaughlin and Hood: Astron. Astrophys. 459, 641,2006) have indicated how a fast MHD wave partially converts into a slow MHD wave as the disturbance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-01 A. M. D. McDougall , A. W. Hood

A model for the solar dynamo, consistent in global flow and numerical method employed with the differential rotation model, is developed. The magnetic turbulent diffusivity is expressed in terms of the entropy gradient, which is controlled…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 L. L. Kitchatinov , A. A. Nepomnyashchikh

We study the modulational instability of geophysical Rossby and plasma drift waves within the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima (CHM) model both theoretically, using truncated (four-mode and three-mode) models, and numerically, using direct simulations…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-05-24 Colm Connaughton , Balu Nadiga , Sergey Nazarenko , Brenda Quinn

Motivated by understanding the dynamics of stellar and planetary interiors, we have performed a set of direct numerical simulations of Boussinesq convection in a rotating full sphere. The domain is internally heated with fixed temperature…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yufeng Lin , Andrew Jackson

Floquet theory is used to describe the unstable spectrum at large scales of the beta-plane equation linearized about Rossby waves. Base flows consisting of one to three Rossby wave are considered analytically using continued fractions and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Youngsuk Lee , Leslie M. Smith

We investigate stochastic resetting in coupled systems involving two degrees of freedom, where only one variable is reset. The resetting variable, which we think of as hidden, indirectly affects the remaining observable variable through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-03 Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Hartmut Löwen

Laminar-turbulent transition on a rotating wind turbine blade at a chord Reynolds number of $1 \times 10^5$ and varying angles of attack ($AoA$) is studied with direct numerical simulations and linear stability theory. The rotation effects…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-01 Thales Coelho Leite Fava , Dan Henningson , Ardeshir Hanifi

Convection in rotating spherical geometries is an important physical process in planetary and stellar systems. Using continuation methods at low Prandtl number, we find both strong equatorially asymmetric and symmetric polar nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 F. Garcia , F. R. N. Chambers , A. L. Watts

Homogeneous anisotropic turbulence simulations are used to determine off-diagonal components of the Reynolds stress tensor and its parameterization in terms of turbulent viscosity and Lambda-effect. The turbulence is forced in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg

Compressibility effects in a turbulent transport of temperature field are investigated applying the quasi-linear approach for small P\'eclet numbers and the spectral $\tau$ approach for large P\'eclet numbers. Compressibility of a fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-27 I. Rogachevskii , N. Kleeorin

The validity of the anelastic approximation has recently been questioned in the regime of rapidly-rotating compressible convection in low Prandtl number fluids (Calkins et al. 2015). Given the broad usage and the high computational…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-22 Jan Verhoeven , Gary A. Glatzmaier

We derive analytical solutions and dispersion relations of global magnetic Poincar\'e (magneto-gravity) and magnetic Rossby waves in the approximation of shallow water magnetohydrodynamics. The solutions are obtained in a rotating spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

We study the motion of an incompressible, inviscid two-dimensional fluid in a rotating frame of reference. There the fluid experiences a Coriolis force, which we assume to be linearly dependent on one of the coordinates. This is a common…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Fabio Pusateri , Klaus Widmayer

This paper explores the effect of rotation on the kappa-mechanism instability of slowly pulsating B stars. A new nonadiabatic code, that adopts the so-called `traditional approximation' to treat the Coriolis force, is used to investigate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 R. H. D. Townsend

This article is focused on the dynamics of a rotating electrically conducting fluid in a turbulent state. As inside the Earth's core or in various industrial processes, a flow is altered by the presence of both background rotation and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-01 Benjamin F. N. Favier , Fabien S. Godeferd , Claude Cambon

The analytical theory of diffusive cosmic ray acceleration at parallel stationary shock waves with magnetostatic turbulence is generalized to arbitrary shock speeds $V_s=\beta_1c$, including in particular relativistic speeds. This is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Reinhard Schlickeiser

We find a linear instability of non-axisymmetric Rossby waves in a thin non-magnetized Keplerian disk when there is a local maximum in the radial profile of a key function ${\cal L}(r) \equiv {\cal F}(r) S^{2/\Gamma}(r)$, where ${\cal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. V. E. Lovelace , H. Li , S. A. Colgate , A. F. Nelson
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