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Published on: August 26, 2019
Minimal nonlinear dynamical system for the interaction between vorticity waves and shear flows
1Department of Geophysics, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Abstract:
This study is a direct follow-up of the paper by Heifetz and Guha [Phys. Rev. E 100, 043105 (2019)2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.100.043105] on a minimal nonlinear dynamical system, describing a prototype of linearized two-dimensional shear instability. In that paper, the authors describe the instability in terms of an action at a distance between two vorticity waves, each of which propagates counter to its local mean flow as well as counter to the other. Here we add to the model the effect of mutual interaction between the waves and the mean flow, where growth of the waves reduces the mean shear and vice versa. This addition yields oscillatory Hamiltonian dynamics, including states of phase slipping and libration with finite-size wave amplitude oscillations. We find that wave-mean-flow dynamics emerging from unstable normal modes in the linearized stage are doomed to librate around the antiphased neutral configuration in which the waves hinder each other's counterpropagation rate. We discuss as well how the given dynamics relates to familiar models of phase oscillators.
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