On gravito-inertial surface waves
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| author | de Verdière, Yves Colin Vidal, Jérémie |
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| contents | In geophysical environments, wave motions that are shaped by the action of gravity and global rotation bear the name of gravito-inertial waves. We present a geometrical description of gravito-inertial surface waves, which are low-frequency waves existing in the presence of a solid boundary. We consider an idealized fluid model for an incompressible fluid enclosed in a smooth compact three-dimensional domain, subject to a constant rotation vector. The fluid is also stratified in density under a constant Brunt-Väisälä frequency. The spectral problem is formulated in terms of the pressure, which satisfies a Poincaré equation within the domain, and a Kelvin equation on the boundary. The Poincaré equation is elliptic when the wave frequency is small enough, such that we can use the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator to reduce the Kelvin equation to a pseudo-differential equation on the boundary. We find that the wave energy is concentrated on the boundary for large covectors, and can exhibit surface wave attractors for generic domains. In an ellipsoid, we show that these waves are square-integrable and reduce to spherical harmonics on the boundary. |
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| spellingShingle | On gravito-inertial surface waves de Verdière, Yves Colin Vidal, Jérémie Analysis of PDEs Mathematical Physics Spectral Theory Geophysics In geophysical environments, wave motions that are shaped by the action of gravity and global rotation bear the name of gravito-inertial waves. We present a geometrical description of gravito-inertial surface waves, which are low-frequency waves existing in the presence of a solid boundary. We consider an idealized fluid model for an incompressible fluid enclosed in a smooth compact three-dimensional domain, subject to a constant rotation vector. The fluid is also stratified in density under a constant Brunt-Väisälä frequency. The spectral problem is formulated in terms of the pressure, which satisfies a Poincaré equation within the domain, and a Kelvin equation on the boundary. The Poincaré equation is elliptic when the wave frequency is small enough, such that we can use the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator to reduce the Kelvin equation to a pseudo-differential equation on the boundary. We find that the wave energy is concentrated on the boundary for large covectors, and can exhibit surface wave attractors for generic domains. In an ellipsoid, we show that these waves are square-integrable and reduce to spherical harmonics on the boundary. |
| title | On gravito-inertial surface waves |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs Mathematical Physics Spectral Theory Geophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12992 |