平流涡度方程及其在2006年Bilis台风分析中的应用

推导得到气压坐标中的动量叉乘形式的垂直涡度方程,这个动量叉乘形式的涡度方程包含了水平风的平流旋转效应,可称为平流涡度方程.由于水平风场的平流作用可由等压面天气图直观分析得到,因此平流涡度方程可方便用于实际天气分析.对2006年的Bilis台风移动过程中由经典涡度方程和平流涡度方程计算得到的垂直涡度倾向进行对比分析发现,二者计算得到的垂直涡度倾向变化的分布形式接近,但平流涡度方程计算得到的倾向的数值明显大于经典涡度方程的数值,正负涡度倾向区也更集中.对Bilis移动过程中的垂直涡度方程和平流涡度方程中各项的计算分析表明,水平风场的平流旋转作用是Bilis发展移动过程中垂直涡度变化的一个主要因素,是造成垂直涡度增强并发展的主要原因.因此,当水平风场平流旋转效应较强时,平流作用对垂直涡度倾向变化起主导作用,可直接用平流项来近似分析Bilis台风的涡度变化.而平流涡度方程中地转涡度和散度项的变化趋势与Bilis台风的移动路径有较好的一致性,这一项对台风的移动路径预报有更好的指示意义.     

Symmetry analysis and explicit solutions of the (3+1)-dimensional baroclinic potential vorticity equation

<正>This paper investigates an important high-dimensional model in the atmospheric and oceanic dynamics-(3+l)- dimensional nonlinear baroclinic potential vorticity equation by the classical Lie group method.Its symmetry algebra, symmetry group and group-invariant solutions are analysed.Otherwise,some exact explicit solutions are obtained from the corresponding(2+1)-dimensional equation,the inviscid barotropic nondivergent vorticy equation.To show the properties and characters of these solutions,some plots as well as their possible physical meanings of the atmospheric circulation are given.     

On a one-dimensional model for the three-dimensional vorticity equation

The one-dimensional model for the three-dimensional vorticity equation proposed by Constantin, Lax, and Majda is discussed. Some unsatisfactory points are examined, especially when the viscosity is introduced. A different model is suggested, which, while less solvable than the previous one, can be more strictly connected with the three-dimensional vorticity behavior. The study is of interest for the numerical treatment of the three-dimensional vorticity equation.     

Green’s function-stochastic methods framework for probing nonlinear evolution problems: Burger’s equation, the nonlinear Schrödinger’s equation, and hydrodynamic organization of near-molecular-scale vorticity

A framework which combines Green’s function (GF) methods and techniques from the theory of stochastic processes is proposed for tackling nonlinear evolution problems. The framework, established by a series of easy-to-derive equivalences between Green’s function and stochastic representative solutions of linear drift–diffusion problems, provides a flexible structure within which nonlinear evolution problems can be analyzed and physically probed. As a preliminary test bed, two canonical, nonlinear evolution problems – Burgers’ equation and the nonlinear Schrödinger’s equation – are first treated. In the first case, the framework provides a rigorous, probabilistic derivation of the well known Cole–Hopf ansatz. Likewise, in the second, the machinery allows systematic recovery of a known soliton solution. The framework is then applied to a fairly extensive exploration of physical features underlying evolution of randomly stretched and advected Burger’s vortex sheets. Here, the governing vorticity equation corresponds to the Fokker–Planck equation of an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, a correspondence that motivates an investigation of sub-sheet vorticity evolution and organization. Under the assumption that weak hydrodynamic fluctuations organize disordered, near-molecular-scale, sub-sheet vorticity, it is shown that these modes consist of two weakly damped counter-propagating cross-sheet acoustic modes, a diffusive cross-sheet shear mode, and a diffusive cross-sheet entropy mode. Once a consistent picture of in-sheet vorticity evolution is established, a number of analytical results, describing the motion and spread of single, multiple, and continuous sets of Burger’s vortex sheets, evolving within deterministic and random strain rate fields, under both viscous and inviscid conditions, are obtained. In order to promote application to other nonlinear problems, a tutorial development of the framework is presented. Likewise, time-incremental solution approaches and construction of approximate, though otherwise difficult-to-obtain backward-time GF’s (useful in solution of forward-time evolution problems) are discussed.     

On nodal solutions of the Yamabe equation on products

Let (M,g), (N,h) be closed Riemannian manifolds of constant scalar curvature. We prove the existence of nodal solutions of the Yamabe equation on the Riemannian product which depend on only one of the factors. We do this by studying the second Yamabe invariant introduced by Ammann and Humbert. We work out the case when M=S¹ explicitly showing the existence of an infinite number of solutions.     

格林函数解卷积处理的阵不变量浅海无源定位

水下声源无源定位是声呐技术重要的研究方向。针对水下声源无源定位问题,本文提出了一种基于格林函数解卷积处理的阵不变量无源定位方法。该方法使用盲解卷积算法从水平阵接收信号中提取时域格林函数,然后采用空域解卷积方法处理得到的时域格林函数,获得波束时间偏移,从波束时间偏移中计算得到阵不变量,解算目标距离,从而实现声源定位。区别于常规阵不变量方法,该方法可以得到更精确的波束时间偏移,从而提升了声源定位精度。仿真和实验数据结果表明,在小孔径水平阵情况下,基于格林函数解卷积处理的阵不变量浅海无源定位方法相较于常规时域处理方法的距离估计精度提高近 40%。     

Stability of periodic progressive gravity wave solutions of the Whitham equation in the presence of vorticity

The modulational instability of two-dimensional nonlinear traveling-wave solutions of the Whitham equation in the presence of constant vorticity is considered. It is shown that vorticity has a significant effect on the growth rate of the perturbations and on the range of unstable wavenumbers. Waves with kh greater than a critical value, where k is the wavenumber of the solution and h is the fluid depth, are modulationally unstable. This critical value decreases as the vorticity increases. Additionally, it is found that waves with large enough amplitude are always unstable, regardless of wavelength, fluid depth, and strength of vorticity. Furthermore, these new results are in qualitative agreement with those obtained by considering fully nonlinear solutions of the water-wave equations.     

On the Boltzmann-Grad limit for the Broadwell model of the Boltzmann equation

An example is given of a model dynamics for which the Broadwell model of the Boltzmann equation seems to appear in the formal stage of the Boltzmann-Grad limit, but actually does not.