Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2005-07-21
Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B 7, 293-314 , 2007
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
23 pages; accepted at Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B; Major revision
Scientific paper
In systems governing two-dimensional turbulence, surface quasi-geostrophic turbulence, (more generally $\alpha$-turbulence), two-layer quasi-geostrophic turbulence, etc., there often exist two conservative quadratic quantities, one ``energy''-like and one ``enstrophy''-like. In a finite inertial range there are in general two spectral fluxes, one associated with each conserved quantity. We derive here an inequality comparing the relative magnitudes of the ``energy'' and ``enstrophy'' fluxes for finite or infinitesimal dissipations, and for hyper or hypo viscosities. When this inequality is satisfied, as is the case of 2D turbulence,where the energy flux contribution to the energy spectrum is small, the subdominant part will be effectively hidden. In sQG turbulence, it is shown that the opposite is true: the downscale energy flux becomes the dominant contribution to the energy spectrum. A combination of these two behaviors appears to be the case in 2-layer QG turbulence, depending on the baroclinicity of the system.
Gkioulekas Eleftherios
Kit Tung Ka
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