Statistical properties of an enstrophy conserving finite element discretisation for the stochastic quasi-geostrophic equation
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Bendall, Thomas M
Cotter, Colin J
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A framework of variational principles for stochastic fluid dynamics was presented by Holm (2015), and these stochastic equations were also derived by Cotter et al. (2017). We present a conforming finite element discretisation for the stochastic quasi-geostrophic equation that was derived from this framework. The discretisation preserves the first two moments of potential vorticity, i.e. the mean potential vorticity and the enstrophy. Following the work of Dubinkina and Frank (2007), who investigated the statistical mechanics of discretisations of the deterministic quasi-geostrophic equation, we investigate the statistical mechanics of our discretisation of the stochastic quasi-geostrophic equation. We compare the statistical properties of our discretisation with the Gibbs distribution under assumption of these conserved quantities, finding that there is agreement between the statistics under a wide range of set-ups.
Date Issued
2019-11-02
Date Acceptance
2018-11-13
Citation
Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 113 (5-6), pp.491-504
ISSN
0309-1929
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Start Page
491
End Page
504
Journal / Book Title
Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
Volume
113
Issue
5-6
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04845v3
Subjects
math.NA
math.NA
physics.flu-dyn
Publication Status
Published online
Date Publish Online
2018-11-28