Exact, free-surface equatorial flows with general stratification in spherical coordinates

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dc.contributor.authorHenry, David
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Calin I.
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-10T10:06:57Z
dc.date.available2021-11-10T10:06:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-26
dc.date.updated2021-05-20T12:22:45Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper is concerned with the construction of a new exact solution to the geophysical fluid dynamics governing equations for inviscid and incompressible fluid in the equatorial region. This solution represents a steady purely-azimuthal flow with a free-surface. The novel aspect of the solution we derive is that the flow it prescribes accommodates a general fluid stratification: the density may vary both with depth, and with latitude. The solution is presented in the terms of spherical coordinates, hence at no stage do we invoke approximations by way of simplifying the geometry in the governing equations. Following the construction of our explicit solution, we employ functional analytic considerations to prove that the pressure at the free-surface defines implicitly the shape of the free-surface distortion in a unique way, exhibiting also the expected monotonicity properties. Finally, using a short-wavelength stability analysis we prove that certain flows defined by our exact solution are stable for a specific choice of the density distribution.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationHenry, D. and Martin, C. I. (2019) 'Exact, Free-Surface Equatorial Flows with General Stratification in Spherical Coordinates', Archive For Rational Mechanics And Analysis, 233, pp. 497-512.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00205-019-01362-zen
dc.identifier.endpage512en
dc.identifier.issn0003-9527
dc.identifier.journaltitleArchive For Rational Mechanics And Analysisen
dc.identifier.startpage497en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12184
dc.identifier.volume233en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Career Development Award/13/CDA/2117/IE/Nonlinear wave-current interactions in the nearshore: addressing the role of vorticity and nonlinearity in the modelling of ocean energy/en
dc.relation.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00205-019-01362-z
dc.rights© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature (2019). This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-019-01362-zen
dc.subjectExact solutionen
dc.subjectImplicit function theoremen
dc.subjectVariable densityen
dc.subjectAzimuthal flowsen
dc.subjectEquatorial Undercurrenten
dc.subjectGeophysical fluid dynamicsen
dc.titleExact, free-surface equatorial flows with general stratification in spherical coordinatesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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