Non-equivalence of quasilinear dynamical systems and their statistical closures

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Autori principali: Nivarti, G. V., Kerswell, R. R., Marston, J. B., Tobias, S. M.
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author Nivarti, G. V.
Kerswell, R. R.
Marston, J. B.
Tobias, S. M.
author_facet Nivarti, G. V.
Kerswell, R. R.
Marston, J. B.
Tobias, S. M.
contents It is widely believed that statistical closure theories for dynamical systems provide statistics equivalent to those of the governing dynamical equations from which the former are derived. Here, we demonstrate counterexamples in the context of the widely used mean-field quasilinear (QL) approximation applied to 2D fluid dynamical systems. We compare statistics of QL numerical simulations with those obtained by direct statistical simulation via a cumulant expansion closed at second order (CE2). We observe that, though CE2 is an exact statistical closure for QL dynamics, its predictions disagree with the statistics of the QL solution for identical parameter values. These disagreements are attributed to instabilities, which we term rank instabilities, of the second cumulant dynamics within CE2 that are unavailable in the QL equations.
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spellingShingle Non-equivalence of quasilinear dynamical systems and their statistical closures
Nivarti, G. V.
Kerswell, R. R.
Marston, J. B.
Tobias, S. M.
Fluid Dynamics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
It is widely believed that statistical closure theories for dynamical systems provide statistics equivalent to those of the governing dynamical equations from which the former are derived. Here, we demonstrate counterexamples in the context of the widely used mean-field quasilinear (QL) approximation applied to 2D fluid dynamical systems. We compare statistics of QL numerical simulations with those obtained by direct statistical simulation via a cumulant expansion closed at second order (CE2). We observe that, though CE2 is an exact statistical closure for QL dynamics, its predictions disagree with the statistics of the QL solution for identical parameter values. These disagreements are attributed to instabilities, which we term rank instabilities, of the second cumulant dynamics within CE2 that are unavailable in the QL equations.
title Non-equivalence of quasilinear dynamical systems and their statistical closures
topic Fluid Dynamics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04127