Symmetric flow of a modified hadley cell model with a free surface
作者:
Ho Sang Kwak,
Kunio Kuwahara,
Jae Min Hyun,
期刊:
Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 87,
issue 1-2
页码: 81-109
ISSN:0309-1929
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1080/03091929808208995
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Symmetric instability;convective instability;modified Hadley cell model
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Numerical studies are conducted of symmetric flows in an infinite horizontal fluid layer with a constant horizontal temperature gradient. A modified rotating Hadley-cell flow configuration is devised by adopting the free-slip and thermally insulated upper boundary. For this model, an analytic solution is available as the basic state. A finite volume numerical procedure is utilized to integrate the fully nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations over broad parameter ranges of the thermal Rossby number,Ro, and the Richardson number,Ri. TheRo—Ridiagram illustrates several flow regimes. In the present framework, both the symmetric instability and Benard-type convective instability are found to occur. These are associated respectively with a negative potential vorticity in the interior and a gravitationally unstable vertical temperature gradient in the thermal boundary layer. The detailed flow structures are computed to reveal the characteristic features of these two instabilities. Time dependent responses are analyzed to examine the dominant mechanism for two-dimensional flow developments. The interaction of the symmetric flows with the basic-state flow field is scrutinized.
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