Stratified Rotating Boussinesq Equations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Dynamic Bifurcation.pdfVIP

STRATIFIED ROTATING BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: DYNAMIC BIFURCATION AND PERIODIC SOLUTIONS 7 0 CHUN-HSIUNG HSIA, TIAN MA, AND SHOUHONG WANG 0 2 Abstract. The main objective of this article is to study the dynamics of the n stratified rotating Boussinesq equations, which are a basic model in geophys- a ical fluid dynamics. First, for the case where the Prandtl number is greater J than one, a complete stability and bifurcation analysis near the first critical 8 Rayleigh number is carried out. Second, for the case where the Prandtl num- 2 ber is smaller than one, the onset of the Hopf bifurcation near the first critical Rayleigh number is established, leading to the existence of nontrivial periodic 2 solutions. The analysis is based on a newly developed bifurcation and stability v theory for nonlinear dynamical systems (both finite and infinite dimensional) 7 by two of the authors [16]. 8 0 0 1 1. Introduction 6 0 The phenomena of the atmosphere and ocean are extremely rich in its organiza- / h tion and complexity, and a lot of them cannot be produced by experiments. These p phenomena involve a broad range of temporal and spatial scales. As we know, both - the atmos