scholarly journals Inertial Waves in a Rotating Spherical Shell with Homogeneous Boundary Conditions

Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
John V. Shebalin
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Spherical Shell ◽  
Wave Structure ◽  
Analytical Form ◽  
Basis Functions ◽  
Inertial Waves ◽  
Vector Spherical Harmonics ◽  
Spherical Surfaces ◽  
Inertial Wave ◽  
The Ideal

We find the analytical form of inertial waves in an incompressible, rotating fluid constrained by concentric inner and outer spherical surfaces with homogeneous boundary conditions on the normal components of velocity and vorticity. These fields are represented by Galerkin expansions whose basis consists of toroidal and poloidal vector functions, i.e., products and curls of products of spherical Bessel functions and vector spherical harmonics. These vector basis functions also satisfy the Helmholtz equation and this has the benefit of providing each basis function with a well-defined wavenumber. Eigenmodes and associated eigenfrequencies are determined for both the ideal and dissipative cases. These eigenmodes are formed from linear combinations of the Galerkin expansion basis functions. The system is truncated to numerically study inertial wave structure, varying the number of eigenmodes. The largest system considered in detail is a 25 eigenmode system and a graphical depiction is presented of the five lowest dissipation eigenmodes, all of which are non-oscillatory. These results may be useful in understanding data produced by numerical simulations of fluid and magnetofluid turbulence in a spherical shell that use a Galerkin, toroidal–poloidal basis as well as qualitative features of liquids confined by a spherical shell.

Biharmonic navigation using radial basis functions

Robotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Xu-Qian Fan ◽  
Wenyong Gong
Keyword(s):  
Finite Difference ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Radial Basis Functions ◽  
Real World ◽  
Biharmonic Equation ◽  
Finite Difference Methods ◽  
Basis Functions ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Radial Basis ◽  
Difference Methods

Abstract Path planning has been widely investigated by many researchers and engineers for its extensive applications in the real world. In this paper, a biharmonic radial basis potential function (BRBPF) representation is proposed to construct navigation fields in 2D maps with obstacles, and it therefore can guide and design a path joining given start and goal positions with obstacle avoidance. We construct BRBPF by solving a biharmonic equation associated with distance-related boundary conditions using radial basis functions (RBFs). In this way, invalid gradients calculated by finite difference methods in large size grids can be preventable. Furthermore, paths constructed by BRBPF are smoother than paths constructed by harmonic potential functions and other methods, and plenty of experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is valid and effective.

Free-surface breakdown in a rapidly rotating liquid

1978 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Capillary Waves ◽  
Mode Frequency ◽  
Wave Form ◽  
Inertial Waves ◽  
Rotating Liquid ◽  
Surface Breakdown ◽  
Beat Phenomenon ◽  
Inertial Wave ◽  
Wave Modes

It is shown that the wavelets which appear on the inertial wave form of the inner free surface of a fully spun-up cylindrical mass of liquid contained in a vertical, rapidly rotating and gyrating gyrostat are capillary waves. It is further shown that the interaction between these capillary waves and the excited inertial waves is not the mechanism which effects an observed two-period collapse (‘breakdown’) and reappearance of the free-surface inertial wave form. Rather, the two-period breakdown can be explained by the conjecture that it is a beat phenomenon arising from the interaction of two differently structured inertial wave modes, which have the same frequency at small amplitudes of oscillation of the gyrostat but which, owing to the dependence of the inertial mode frequency on the amplitude of the gyrostatic motion, have slightly different frequencies at larger amplitudes of oscillation of the gyrostat.

scholarly journals Inertial waves in a rotating spherical shell: attractors and asymptotic spectrum

2001 ◽  
Vol 435 ◽  
pp. 103-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. RIEUTORD ◽  
B. GEORGEOT ◽  
L. VALDETTARO
Keyword(s):  
Lyapunov Exponent ◽  
Velocity Field ◽  
Spherical Shell ◽  
Asymptotic Properties ◽  
Analytical Form ◽  
Shear Layers ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Geometrical Approach ◽  
Steady Flows ◽  
Whole Space

We investigate the asymptotic properties of inertial modes confined in a spherical shell when viscosity tends to zero. We first consider the mapping made by the characteristics of the hyperbolic equation (Poincaré's equation) satisfied by inviscid solutions. Characteristics are straight lines in a meridional section of the shell, and the mapping shows that, generically, these lines converge towards a periodic orbit which acts like an attractor (the associated Lyapunov exponent is always negative or zero). We show that these attractors exist in bands of frequencies the size of which decreases with the number of reflection points of the attractor. At the bounding frequencies the associated Lyapunov exponent is generically either zero or minus infinity. We further show that for a given frequency the number of coexisting attractors is finite.We then examine the relation between this characteristic path and eigensolutions of the inviscid problem and show that in a purely two-dimensional problem, convergence towards an attractor means that the associated velocity field is not square-integrable. We give arguments which generalize this result to three dimensions. Then, using a sphere immersed in a fluid filling the whole space, we study the critical latitude singularity and show that the velocity field diverges as 1/√d, d being the distance to the characteristic grazing the inner sphere.We then consider the viscous problem and show how viscosity transforms singularities into internal shear layers which in general reveal an attractor expected at the eigenfrequency of the mode. Investigating the structure of these shear layers, we find that they are nested layers, the thinnest and most internal layer scaling with E1/3, E being the Ekman number; for this latter layer, we give its analytical form and show its similarity to vertical 1/3-shear layers of steady flows. Using an inertial wave packet travelling around an attractor, we give a lower bound on the thickness of shear layers and show how eigenfrequencies can be computed in principle. Finally, we show that as viscosity decreases, eigenfrequencies tend towards a set of values which is not dense in [0, 2Ω], contrary to the case of the full sphere (Ω is the angular velocity of the system).Hence, our geometrical approach opens the possibility of describing the eigenmodes and eigenvalues for astrophysical/geophysical Ekman numbers (10−10–10−20), which are out of reach numerically, and this for a wide class of containers.

scholarly journals Energy intensity of inertial waves in a sphere

1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-160
Author(s):  
W. W. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Energy Density ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Energy Intensity ◽  
Initial Disturbance ◽  
Inertial Waves ◽  
Inertial Wave

AbstractThe decay at large wavenumbers of the energy density in an inertial wave generated in a sphere by an arbitrary initial disturbance is determined as a first step to a comparison with the general theory of Phillips [17] for a statistically steady field of random inertial waves in an arbitrary cavity.

Hybrid Method of Engineering Analysis: Combining Meshfree Method with Distance Fields and Collocation Technique

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Tsukanov ◽  
Sudhir R. Posireddy
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Unstructured Grids ◽  
Numerical Technique ◽  
Meshfree Method ◽  
Basis Functions ◽  
Benchmark Problems ◽  
Hybrid Technique ◽  
Engineering Analysis ◽  
Distance Fields ◽  
Collocation Technique

This paper describes a numerical technique for solving engineering analysis problems that combine radial basis functions and collocation technique with meshfree method with distance fields, also known as solution structure method. The proposed hybrid technique enables exact treatment of all prescribed boundary conditions at every point on the geometric boundary and can be efficiently implemented for both structured and unstructured grids of basis functions. Ability to use unstructured grids empowers the meshfree method with distance fields with higher level of geometric flexibility. By providing exact treatment of the boundary conditions, the new approach makes it possible to exclude boundary conditions from the collocation equations. This reduces the size of the algebraic system, which results in faster solutions. At the same time, the boundary collocation points can be used to enforce the governing equation of the problem, which enhances the solution’s accuracy. Application of the proposed method to solution of heat transfer problems is illustrated on a number of benchmark problems. Modeling results are compared with those obtained by the traditional collocation technique and meshfree method with distance fields.

Boundaries and Geometries

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Glatzmaier
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Spherical Shell ◽  
Spherical Harmonic ◽  
Stable Stratification ◽  
Internal Gravity Waves ◽  
Box Model ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Nonzero Mean

This chapter examines how boundary and geometry affect convection. It begins with a discussion of how one can implement “absorbing” top and bottom boundaries, which reduce the large-amplitude convectively driven flows within shallow boundary layers or the reflection of internal gravity waves off these boundaries in a stable stratification. It then considers how to replace the impermeable side boundary conditions with permeable periodic side boundary conditions to allow fluid flow through these boundaries and nonzero mean flow. It also introduces “two and a half dimensional” geometry within a cartesian box geometry and describes how a fully 3D cartesian box model could be constructed. Finally, it presents a model of convection in a fully 3D spherical-shell and shows how it can be easily reduced to a 2.5D spherical-shell model. The horizontal structures are represented in terms of spherical harmonic expansions.

scholarly journals Boussinesq convection in a gaseous spherical shell

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 373-382
Author(s):  
L. Korre ◽  
N. Brummell ◽  
P. Garaud
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Spherical Shell ◽  
Mixed Boundary ◽  
Mixed Boundary Conditions ◽  
Boussinesq Approximation ◽  
Fixed Temperature ◽  
Planetary Interiors ◽  
Adiabatic Temperature Gradient ◽  
Relevant Quantity

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of convection in a spherical shell under the Boussinesq approximation but considering the compressibility which arises from a non zero adiabatic temperature gradient, a relevant quantity for gaseous objects such as stellar or planetary interiors. We find that depth-dependent superiadiabaticity, combined with the use of mixed boundary conditions (fixed flux/fixed temperature), gives rise to unexpected dynamics that were not previously reported.

Stresses in a Spherical Shell With a Nonradial Nozzle

1967 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cylindrical Shell ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Spherical Shell ◽  
Shell Theory ◽  
Analytical Investigation ◽  
Type Method ◽  
Cylindrical Nozzle ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Radial Nozzle

An analytical investigation is made of the stresses due to external forces and moments acting on an elastic nonradial circular cylindrical nozzle attached to a spherical shell. The nozzle (a cylindrical shell) is nonradial in the sense that its axis is inclined and does not pass through the center of the sphere. Results are obtained by combining solutions from shell theory by a Galerkin-type method so as to satisfy boundary conditions at the intersection of the two shells. It is found that, as the nozzle inclination increases, the stresses change gradually from those previously given by Bijlaard for the radial nozzle.

Inertial waves in a rotating spherical shell

1997 ◽  
Vol 341 ◽  
pp. 77-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. RIEUTORD ◽  
L. VALDETTARO
Keyword(s):  
Spherical Shell ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Shear Layers ◽  
Inertial Waves ◽  
Ekman Number ◽  
Distribution Of Eigenvalues ◽  
Simple Rules ◽  
Meridional Cross Section ◽  
Zero Viscosity ◽  
The Web

The structure and spectrum of inertial waves of an incompressible viscous fluid inside a spherical shell are investigated numerically. These modes appear to be strongly featured by a web of rays which reflect on the boundaries. Kinetic energy and dissipation are indeed concentrated on thin conical sheets, the meridional cross-section of which forms the web of rays. The thickness of the rays is in general independent of the Ekman number E but a few cases show a scaling with E1/4 and statistical properties of eigenvalues indicate that high-wavenumber modes have rays of width O(E1/3). Such scalings are typical of Stewartson shear layers. It is also shown that the web of rays depends on the Ekman number and shows bifurcations as this number is decreased.This behaviour also implies that eigenvalues do not evolve smoothly with viscosity. We infer that only the statistical distribution of eigenvalues may follow some simple rules in the asymptotic limit of zero viscosity.

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