Tidal instability in a rotating and differentially heated ellipsoidal shell

Details Tidal instability in a rotating and differentially heated ellipsoidal shell Tidal instability in a rotating and differentially heated ellipsoidal shell

2010-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/1009.6094v1

Geophysical Journal International 182, 3 (2010) 1311--1318

Physics

Classical Physics

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10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04712.x

The stability of a rotating flow in a triaxial ellipsoidal shell with an imposed temperature difference between inner and outer boundaries is studied numerically. We demonstrate that (i) a stable temperature field encourages the tidal instability, (ii) the tidal instability can grow on a convective flow, which confirms its relevance to geo- and astrophysical contexts and (iii) its growth rate decreases when the intensity of convection increases. Simple scaling laws characterizing the evolution of the heat flux based on a competition between viscous and thermal boundary layers are derived analytically and verified numerically. Our results confirm that thermal and tidal effects have to be simultaneously taken into account when studying geophysical and astrophysical flows.

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