Large Scale Perturbations in Extratropical Atmosphere-Part Ⅰ: On Rossby Waves

This study reexamines the propagation mechanism and geostrophic property of the classical two-dimensional Rossby waves in a non-divergent barotropic atmosphere. It will be found that propagation of large scale atmospheric waves depends crucially on horizontal divergence. A small Rossby number in Rossby waves is not sufficient for the waves to have a small ageostrophic component, because the two-dimensional classical Rossby waves do not manifest the geostrophic balance as good as observed in the atmosphere.

Large Scale Perturbations in Extratropical Atmosphere-Part Ⅱ: On Geostrophic Waves

We have examined, in Part Ⅰ, the propagation mechanism and geostrophic property of classical Rossby waves in a non-divergent barotropic atmosphere. As we found that the non-divergent Rossby waves do not propagate in a hydrostatically equilibrium atmosphere, and do not manifest a good geostrophic property, an alternative large scale circulation pattern of geostrophic waves has been proposed (McHall, 1991a). The propagation mechanism and geostrophic property of these waves are examined in the present study.

NONLINEAR STABILITY OF VISCOUS SHOCK WAVES FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL NONISENTROPIC COMPRESSIBLE NAVIER–STOKES EQUATIONS WITH A CLASS OF LARGE INITIAL PERTURBATION

We study the nonlinear stability of viscous shock waves for the Cauchy problem of one-dimensional nonisentropic compressible Navier–Stokes equations for a viscous and heat conducting ideal polytropic gas. The viscous shock waves are shown to be time asymptotically stable under large initial perturbation with no restriction on the range of the adiabatic exponent provided that the strengths of the viscous shock waves are assumed to be sufficiently small.The proofs are based on the nonlinear energy estimates and the crucial step is to obtain the positive lower and upper bounds of the density and the temperature which are uniformly in time and space.

BOUNDARY LAYER SOLUTION FOR p-SYSTEM WITH ARTIFICIAL VISCOSITY

An initial-boundary values problem in the half space （0, ∞ ） for p-system with artificial viscosity is investigated. It is shown that there exists a boundary layer solution. It is further proved that the boundary layer solution is nonlinear stable with arbitrarily large perturbation. The proof is given by an elementary energy method.

Nonlinear stability of rarefaction waves for a viscous radiative and reactive gas with large initial perturbation

We investigate the time-asymptotically nonlinear stability of rarefaction waves to the Cauchy problem of a one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes type system for a viscous,compressible,radiative and reactive gas,where the constitutive relations for the pressure p,the speci c internal energy e,the speci c volume v,the absolute temperature θ,and the specific entropy s are given by p=Rθv+aθ^(4)/3,e=C_(v)θ+avθ^(4),and s=C_(v)lnθ+4avθ^(3)/3+Rln v with R>0,C_(v)>0 and a>0 being the perfect gas constant,the speci c heat and the radiation constant,respectively.For such a specific gas motion,a somewhat surprising fact is that,generally speaking,the pressure p(v,s)is not a convex function of the specific volume v and the specific entropy s.Even so,we show in this paper that the rarefaction waves are time-asymptotically stable for large initial perturbation provided that the radiation constant a and the strength of the rarefaction waves are sufficiently small.The key point in our analysis is to deduce the positive lower and upper bounds on the specific volume and the absolute temperature,which are uniform with respect to the space and the time variables,but are independent of the radiation constant a.