Nonlinearly Coupled KdV Equations Describing the Interaction of Equatorial and Midlatitude Rossby Waves

Amplitude equations governing the nonlinear resonant interaction of equatorial baroclinic and barotropic Rossby waves were derived by Majda and Biello and used as a model for long range interactions （teleconnections） between the tropical and midlatitude troposphere. An overview of that derivation is nonlinear wave theory, but not in atmospheric presented and geared to readers versed in sciences. In the course of the derivation, two other sets of asymptotic equations are presented： the long equatorial wave equations and the weakly nonlinear, long equatorial wave equations. A linear transformation recasts the amplitude equations as nonlinear and linearly coupled KdV equations governing the amplitude of two types of modes, each of which consists of a coupled tropical/midlatitude flow. In the limit of Rossby waves with equal dispersion, the transformed amplitude equations become two KdV equations coupled only through nonlinear fluxes. Four numerical integrations are presented which show （i） the interaction of two solitons, one from either mode, （ii） and （iii） the interaction of a soliton in the presence of different mean wind shears, and （iv） the interaction of two solitons mediated by the presence of a mean wind shear.     

Mathematical Analysis of the Jin-Neelin Model of El Nio-Southern-Oscillation

The Jin-Neelin model for the El Nio–Southern Oscillation(ENSO for short) is considered for which the authors establish existence and uniqueness of global solutions in time over an unbounded channel domain. The result is proved for initial data and forcing that are sufficiently small. The smallness conditions involve in particular key physical parameters of the model such as those that control the travel time of the equatorial waves and the strength of feedback due to vertical-shear currents and upwelling; central mechanisms in ENSO dynamics.From the mathematical view point, the system appears as the coupling of a linear shallow water system and a nonlinear heat equation. Because of the very different nature of the two components of the system, the authors find it convenient to prove the existence of solution by semi-discretization in time and utilization of a fractional step scheme. The main idea consists of handling the coupling between the oceanic and temperature components by dividing the time interval into small sub-intervals of length k and on each sub-interval to solve successively the oceanic component, using the temperature T calculated on the previous sub-interval, to then solve the sea-surface temperature(SST for short) equation on the current sub-interval. The passage to the limit as k tends to zero is ensured via a priori estimates derived under the aforementioned smallness conditions.     

Two-Way Interactions Between Equatorially-Trapped Waves and the Barotropic Flow

Lateral energy exchange between the tropics and the midlatitudes is a topic of great importance for understanding Earth＇s climate system. In this paper, the authors address this issue in an idealized set up through simple shallow water models for the interactions between equatorially trapped waves and the barotropic mode, which supports Rossby waves that propagate poleward and can excite midlatitude teleconnection patterns. It is found here that the interactions between a Kelvin wave and a fixed meridionai shear （mimicking the jet stream） generates a non-trivial meridional velocity and meridional convergence in phase with the upward motion that can attain a maximum of about 50%, which oscillates on frequencies ranging from one day to 10 days. When, on the other hand, the barotropic flow is forced by slowly propagating Kelvin waves a complex flow pattern emerges; it consists of a phase-locked barotropic response that is equatoriaily trapped and that propagates eastward with the forcing Kelvin wave and a certain number of planetary Rossby waves that propagate westward and toward the poles as seen in nature. It is suggested here that the poleward propagating waves are to some sort of multi-way resonant interaction with the phase locked response. Moreover, it is shown here that a numerical scheme with dispersion properties that depend on the direction perpendicular to the direction of propagation, namely the 2D central scheme of Nessyahu and Tadmor, can artificially alter significantly the topology of the wave fields and thus should be avoided in climate models.     

Solitary Wave Solutions and Kink Wave Solutions for a Generalized PC Equation

We present in this paper a generalised PC (GPC) equation which includes several known models. The corresponding traveling wave system is derived and we show that the homoclinic orbits of the traveling wave system correspond to the solitary waves of GPC equation, and the heteroclnic orbits correspond to the kink waves. Under some parameter conditions, the existence of above two types of orbits is demonstrated and the explicit expressions of the two solutions are worked out.     

Recent progresses in studies on wave-current loads on foundation structure with piles and slab?

The foundation structure with piles and slab is widely used in o?shore wind farm construction in shallow water. Experimental studies on the hydrodynamic loads acting on the piles and slab under irregular waves and currents are summarized with discussion on the e?ects of pile grouping on the wave forces and wave impact loads on the slab locating near the free surface. By applying the theoretical solution of the wave di?racted by the slab and using the Morison equation to evaluate the wave force on the piles, the e?ects of the slab on the wave forces acting on the piles are analyzed. Based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and the volume of ?uid (VOF) method, a numerical wave basin is developed to simulate the wave-structure interaction. The computed maximum wave force on the foundation structure with piles and slab agrees well with the measured data. The violent deformation, breaking, and run-up of the wave around the structure are presented and discussed. Further work on the turbulent ?ow structures and large deformation of the free surface due to interaction of the waves and foundation structures of o?shore wind farms needs more e?cient approaches for evaluating hydrodynamic loads under the e?ects of nonlinear waves and currents.     

EXACT EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS OF THE NONLINEAR SCHRDINGER EQUATION COUPLED TO THE BOUSSINESQ EQUATION

A system comprised of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation coupled to the Boussinesq equation (S-B equations) which dealing with the stationary propagation of coupled non-linear upper-hybrid and magnetosonic waves in magnetized plasma is proposed. To examine its solitary wave solutions, a reduced set of ordinary differential equations are considered by a simple traveling wave transformation. It is then shown that several new     

A Global Solution to a Two-dimensional Riemann Problem Involving Shocks as Free Boundaries

We present a global solution to a Riemann problem for the pressure gradient system of equations.The Riemann problem has initially two shock waves and two contact discontinuities. The angle between the two shock waves is set initially to be close to 180 degrees. The solution has a shock wave that is usually regarded as a free boundary in the self-similar variable plane. Our main contribution in methodology is handling the tangential oblique derivative boundary values.     

Zero dissipation limit to a Riemann solution consisting of two shock waves for the 1D compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations

We investigate the zero dissipation limit problem of the one-dimensional compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations with Riemann initial data in the case of the composite wave of two shock waves.It is shown that the unique solution to the Navier-Stokes equations exists for all time,and converges to the Riemann solution to the corresponding Euler equations with the same Riemann initial data uniformly on the set away from the shocks,as the viscosity vanishes.In contrast to previous related works,where either the composite wave is absent or the efects of initial layers are ignored,this gives the frst mathematical justifcation of this limit for the compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of both composite wave and initial layers.Our method of proof consists of a scaling argument,the construction of the approximate solution and delicate energy estimates.     

New numerical methods for the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

In this paper, three numerical schemes with high accuracy for the coupled Schrodinger equations are studied. The conserwtive properties of the schemes are obtained and the plane wave solution is analysised. The split step Runge-Kutta scheme is conditionally stable by linearized analyzed. The split step compact scheme and the split step spectral method are unconditionally stable. The trunction error of the schemes are discussed. The fusion of two solitions colliding with different β is shown in the figures. The numerical experments demonstrate that our algorithms are effective and reliable.     

Reflection and Refraction of Waves Across an Interface of Two-phase Flow

We investigate a hyperbolic system of one-dimensional isothermal fluid with liquid-vapor phase transition.The refraction-reflection phenomena are intensively analyzed when elementary waves travel across the two-phase interface.We apply the characteristic method and hodograph transform of Riemann to reduce the nonlinear PDEs to a concise form.Specially for the case of incident rarefaction wave,reduced linear equations are convenient to solve by Laplace transform.Then an integral formula in wave interaction region is derived in this paper,instead of the hypergeometric functions solutions for non-isothermal polytropic gases.It is also observed that when incident waves travel from the vapor phase to the liquid phase,the refracted waves must be accelerated and move forward.     

A CLASS OF HOMOTOPIC SOLVING METHOD FOR ENSO MODEL

The El Nio/La Nia and the Southern Oscillation(ENSO)is an interan- nual phenomenon involved in the tropical Pacific ocean-atmosphere interactions.In this article,the aim is to create an asymptotic solving method of nonlinear equation for the ENSO models.And on the basis of a class of oscillator of ENSO models,using the method of homotopic mapping,the approximation of solution of corresponding problem is stud- ied.It is proved from the results that homotopic method can be used for analyzing the SST anomaly...     

The Effect of Meridional and Vertical Shear on the Interaction of Equatorial Baroclinic and Barotropic Rossby Waves

Simplified asymptotic equations describing the resonant nonlinear interaction of equatorial Rossby waves with barotropic Rossby waves with significant midlatitude projection in the presence of arbitrary vertically and meridionally sheared zonal mean winds are developed. The three mode equations presented here are an extension of the two mode equations derived by Majda and Biello [ 1 ] and arise in the physically relevant regime produced by seasonal heating when the vertical (baroclinic) mean shear has both symmetric and antisymmetric components; the dynamics of the equatorial baroclinic and both symmetric and antisymmetric barotropic waves is developed. The equations described here are novel in several respects and involve a linear dispersive wave system coupled through quadratic nonlinearities. Numerical simulations are used to explore the effect of antisymmetric baroclinic shear on the exchange of energy between equatorial baroclinic and barotropic waves; the main effect of moderate antisymmetric winds is to shift the barotropic waves meridionally. A purely meridionally antisymmetric mean shear yields highly asymmetric waves which often propagate across the equator. The two mode equations appropriate to Ref. [ 1 ] are shown to have analytic solitary wave solutions and some representative examples with their velocity fields are presented.     

On linear and nonlinear Rossby waves in an ocean

This paper deals with recent developments of linear and nonlinear Rossby waves in an ocean. Included are also linear Poincaré, Rossby, and Kelvin waves in an ocean. The dispersion diagrams for Poincaré, Kelvin and Rossby waves are presented. Special attention is given to the nonlinear Rossby waves on a β-plane ocean. Based on the perturbation analysis, it is shown that the nonlinear evolution equation for the wave amplitude satisfies a modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The solution of this equation represents solitary waves in a dispersive medium. In other words, the envelope of the amplitude of the waves has a soliton structure and these envelope solitons propagate with the group velocity of the Rossby waves. Finally, a nonlinear analytical model is presented for long Rossby waves in a meridional channel with weak shear. A new nonlinear wave equation for the amplitude of large Rossby waves is derived in a region where fluid flows over the recirculation core. It is shown that the governing amplitude equations for the inner and outer zones are both KdV type, where weak nonlinearity is balanced by weak dispersion. In the inner zone, the nonlinear amplitude equation has a new term proportional to the 3/2 power of the difference between the wave amplitude and the critical amplitude, and this term occurs to account for a nonlinearity due to the flow over the vortex core. The solution of the amplitude equations with the linear shear flow represents the solitary waves. The present study deals with the lowest mode (n=1) analysis. An extension of the higher modes (n?2) of this work will be made in a subsequent paper.     

Periodic structures of oceanic Rossby wave under the influence of wind stress

A simple oceanic barotropic potential vorticity equation on β-plane with the influence of wind stress is applied to investigate the nonlinear Rossby wave in a shear flow. By the reductive perturbation method, we derived the rotational modified KdV (rmKdV for short) equation. And then with the help of Jacobi elliptic functions, we obtain various periodic structures for these equatorial Rossby waves. It is shown that the wind stress is very important for these periodic structures of rational form.     

Periodic structures of oceanic Rossby wave under the influence of wind stress

A simple oceanic barotropic potential vorticity equation on β-plane with the influence of wind stress is applied to investigate the nonlinear Rossby wave in a shear flow. By the reductive perturbation method, we derived the rotational modified KdV (rmKdV for short) equation. And then with the help of Jacobi elliptic functions, we obtain various periodic structures for these equatorial Rossby waves. It is shown that the wind stress is very important for these periodic structures of rational form.     

On the structure and growth rate of unstable modes to the Rossby‐Haurwitz wave

The normal mode instability study of a steady Rossby‐Haurwitz wave is considered both theoretically and numerically. This wave is exact solution of the nonlinear barotropic vorticity equation describing the dynamics of an ideal fluid on a rotating sphere, as well as the large‐scale barotropic dynamics of the atmosphere. In this connection, the stability of the Rossby‐Haurwitz wave is of considerable mathematical and meteorological interest. The structure of the spectrum of the linearized operator in case of an ideal fluid is studied. A conservation law for perturbations to the Rossby‐Haurwitz wave is obtained and used to get a necessary condition for its exponential instability. The maximum growth rate of unstable modes is estimated. The orthogonality of the amplitude of a non‐neutral or non‐stationary mode to the Rossby‐Haurwitz wave is shown in two different inner products. The analytical results obtained are used to test and discuss the accuracy of a numerical spectral method used for the normal mode stability study of arbitrary flow on a sphere. The comparison of the numerical and theoretical results shows that the numerical instability study method works well in case of such smooth solutions as the zonal flows and Rossby‐Haurwitz waves. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2005     

Mathematical Analysis of the Jin-Neelin Model of El Niño-Southern-Oscillation

The Jin-Neelin model for the El Ni$\wt{\rm n}$o--Southern Oscillation (ENSO for short) is considered for which the authors establish existence and uniqueness of global solutions in time over an unbounded channel domain. The result is proved for initial data and forcing that are sufficiently small. The smallness conditions involve in particular key physical parameters of the model such as those that control the travel time of the equatorial waves and the strength of feedback due to vertical-shear currents and upwelling; central mechanisms in ENSO dynamics. From the mathematical view point, the system appears as the coupling of a linear shallow water system and a nonlinear heat equation. Because of the very different nature of the two components of the system, the authors find it convenient to prove the existence of solution by semi-discretization in time and utilization of a fractional step scheme. The main idea consists of handling the coupling between the oceanic and temperature components by dividing the time interval into small sub-intervals of length $k$ and on each sub-interval to solve successively the oceanic component, using the temperature $T$ calculated on the previous sub-interval, to then solve the sea-surface temperature (SST for short) equation on the current sub-interval. The passage to the limit as $k$ tends to zero is ensured via a priori estimates derived under the aforementioned smallness conditions.     

Mathematical modelization of equatorial waves

Our purpose is to calculate waves propagating along the equator in an oceanic domain and the influence of a characteristic mean equatorial circulation on the nature of these waves. Equations satisfied by perturbations of currents and temperature are of the Navier-Stokes type and have been linearized around a stationary solution. Existence and uniqueness of the solution have been proved. Numerical experiments have been carried out and provided us with time-dependent values. The excited waves are exhibited by Fourier analysis of these time series.