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Numerical simulations of 3D, rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection are performed using an asymptotic quasi-geostrophic model that incorporates the effects of no-slip boundaries through (i) parameterized Ekman pumping boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Meredith Plumley , Keith Julien , Philippe Marti , Stephan Stellmach

It is a well established result of linear theory that the influence of differing mechanical boundary conditions, i.e., stress-free or no-slip, on the primary instability in rotating convection becomes asymptotically small in the limit of…

The Ekman boundary layer is a fundamental concept in fluid dynamics that describes fluid motion near boundaries affected by Earth's rotation. Most theoretical studies have simplified their analysis by assuming a planar boundary surface,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Yifei Jia , Yi Du , Lihui Guo

Rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection on a $f$-plane at colatitude $\vartheta_f$ is investigated numerically using an asymptotically reduced equation set valid in the limit of very rapid rotation. The equations provide a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-25 Benjamin Miquel , Abram Ellison , Michael A. Calkins , Keith Julien , Edgar Knobloch

Rayleigh--B\'enard (RB) convection, the flow in a fluid layer heated from below and cooled from above, is used to analyze the transition to the geostrophic regime of thermal convection. In the geostrophic regime, which is of direct…

Geophysicists have studied 3D Quasi-Geostrophic systems extensively. These systems describe stratified flows in the atmosphere on a large time scale and are widely used for forecasting atmospheric circulation. They couple an inviscid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Yiran Hu

In the two-layer quasi-geostrophic model, the friction between the flow at the lower layer and the surface boundary layer, placed beneath the lower layer, is modeled by the Ekman term, which is a linear dissipation term with respect to the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Eleftherios Gkioulekas

The construction of Ekman boundary layer solutions near the non-flat boundaries presents a complex challenge, with limited research on this issue. In Masmoudi's pioneering work [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 53 (2000), 432--483], the Ekman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Yifei Jia , Yi Du , Lihui Guo

The dependence of the heat transfer, as measured by the nondimensional Nusselt number $Nu$, on Ekman pumping for rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in an infinite plane layer is examined for fluids with Prandtl number $Pr = 1$. A…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-13 Meredith Plumley , Keith Julien , Philippe Marti , Stephan Stellmach

In the rapidly rotating limit, we derive a balanced set of reduced equations governing the strongly nonlinear development of the convective wall-mode instability in the interior of a general container. The model illustrates that wall-mode…

In this paper we present axisymmetric nonlinear simulations of magnetized Ekman and Stewartson layers in a magnetized Taylor-Couette flow with a centrifugally stable angular-momemtum profile and with a magnetic Reynolds number below the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wei Liu

The Eady problem of baroclinic instability as applicable to quasi-geostrophic oceanic flows with zero internal PV gradients is revisited by introducing a mild slope and Ekman pumping on the lower boundary. The solution behaviour is…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Tapani Stipa

Ekman pumping is a phenomenon induced by no-slip boundary conditions in rotating fluids. In the context of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, Ekman pumping causes a significant change in the linear stability of the system compared to when it is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-15 Sara Tro , Ian Grooms , Keith Julien

The steady incompressible viscous flow in the wide gap between spheres rotating about a common axis at slightly different rates (small Ekman number E) has a long and celebrated history. The problem is relevant to the dynamics of geophysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Florence Marcotte , Emmanuel Dormy , Andrew Soward

The influence of fixed temperature and fixed heat flux thermal boundary conditions on rapidly rotating convection in the plane layer geometry is investigated for the case of stress-free mechanical boundary conditions. It is shown that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Michael A. Calkins , Kevin Hale , Keith Julien , David Nieves , Derek Driggs , Philippe Marti

This paper concerns the dynamics of a layer of incompressible viscous fluid lying above a rigid plane and with an upper boundary given by a free surface. The fluid is subject to a constant external force with a horizontal component, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Ian Tice

The linear theory for rotating compressible convection in a plane layer geometry is presented for the astrophysically-relevant case of low Prandtl number gases. When the rotation rate of the system is large, the flow remains geostrophically…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-03-02 Michael A. Calkins , Keith Julien , Philippe Marti

The inviscid multi-layer quasi-geostrophic equations are considered over an arbitrary bounded domain. The no-flux but non-homogeneous boundary conditions are imposed to accommodate the free fluctuations of the top and layer interfaces.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Qingshan Chen

The entropic mechanism for producing nearly scale-invariant density perturbations in a contracting ekpyrotic universe relies on having an unstable scalar potential. Here we develop a variant of this mechanism (recently proposed by Qiu, Gao…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Angelika Fertig , Jean-Luc Lehners , Enno Mallwitz

A new type of perturbation expansion in the mixing $V$ of localized orbitals with a conduction-electron band in the $U\to\infty$ Anderson model is presented. It is built on Feynman diagrams obeying standard rules. The local correlations of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Jan Brinckmann
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