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Statistical mechanics approaches for turbulent geophysical flows is a powerful theoretical tool to predict self-organization of these flows. Previous application of this theory have been restricted to quasi-geostrophic equations. Here we consider the more general shallow water equations that include gravity waves and allow for energy transfer through waves. We show explicit computation of statistical equilibrium states for this model and devise an algorithm to compute these equilibria in more general cases. These results are used to predict the amount of energy that should be transferred into waves or into a large scale geostrophic circulation for a given initial condition.
Author(s):
Adrien LICARI
CRAL/ENS-Lyon
France
Max POTTERS
University of Utrecht
Netherlands
Antoine VENAILLE
CNRS/ENS-Lyon
France
Freddy BOUCHET
CNRS/ENS-Lyon
France