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Nonlinear Whirlpools Versus Harmonic Waves in a Rotating Column of Stratified Fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2013

N. H. Ibragimov  and
R. N. Ibragimov
N. H. Ibragimov
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, SE-371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden and Research Laboratory “Group analysis of mathematical models in natural sciences, technics and technology” Ufa State Aviation Technical University, 450000 Ufa, Russia
R. N. Ibragimov*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Texas at Brownsville, TX 78520, USA
*
∗ Corresponding author. E-mail: Ranis.Ibragimov@utb.edu
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Abstract

Propagation of nonlinear baroclinic Kelvin waves in a rotating column of uniformly stratified fluid under the Boussinesq approximation is investigated. The model is constrained by the Kelvin’s conjecture saying that the velocity component normal to the interface between rotating fluid and surrounding medium (e.g. a seashore) is possibly zero everywhere in the domain of fluid motion, not only at the boundary. Three classes of distinctly different exact solutions for the nonlinear model are obtained. The obtained solutions are associated with symmetries of the Boussinesq model. It is shown that one class of the obtained solutions can be visualized as rotating whirlpools along which the pressure deviation from the mean state is zero, is positive inside and negative outside of the whirlpools. The angular velocity is zero at the center of the whirlpools and it is monotonically increasing function of radius of the whirlpools.

Keywords

stratified rotating fluidsnonlinear Boussinesq modelexact solutions
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Research Article
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Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena , Volume 8 , Issue 1: Harmonic analysis , 2013 , pp. 122 - 131
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© EDP Sciences, 2013

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