Transport in Viscous Rotating Fluids

Transport in Viscous Rotating Fluids

We consider a uniformly rotating viscous incompressible fluid and estimate particle transport in the vertical direction (parallel to the rotation axis). We prove that for short time and regular initial data, strong rotation suppresses the vertical gradient of flow maps. The proof uses a diffusive Lagrangian formalism, and the suppression of the vertical gradient is a natural and direct byproduc...

Transport in Rotating Fluids

We consider uniformly rotating incompressible Euler and NavierStokes equations. We study the suppression of vertical gradients of Lagrangian displacement (”vertical” refers to the direction of the rotation axis). We employ a formalism that relates the total vorticity to the gradient of the back-to-labels map (the inverse Lagrangian map, for inviscid flows, a diffusive analogue for viscous flows...

Tides in Rotating Fluids

We _consider t~e _tidal disturbance_ fo~c~d ~n a differentially rotating fluid by a rigidly rotating external potential. The flmd ~s assumed to be mviscid, msl:llated, and self-gravitating, and to have laminar unperturbed and pe~tu~bed velocity fields. The external potential may exert a steady torque on the fluid which is of second order m Its str~ngth. ~owever, to this. order, we prove that th...

Faraday’s Instability for Viscous Fluids

We derive an exact equation which is nonlocal in time for the linear evolution of the surface of a viscous fluid, and show that this equation becomes local and of second order in an interesting limit. We use our local equation to study Faraday’s instability in a strongly dissipative regime and find a new scenario which is the analog of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Analytic and numerical cal...

Microcantilever mechanics in flowing viscous fluids