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Influence of penetration depth on jets on giant planets: equatorial jet direction, jet numbers, and jet energy fraction
Yaoxuan Zeng, Wanying Kang, Glenn R. Flierl +1
It remains puzzling why, despite their similar nature, Jupiter and Saturn possess a prograde equatorial jet, whereas Uranus and Neptune have a retrograde one. To understand this di…
Statistical Nonlocality of Dynamically Coherent Structures
Andre N. Souza, Tyler Lutz, Glenn R. Flierl
We introduce a class of stochastic advection problems amenable to analysis of turbulent transport. The statistics of the flow field are represented as a continuous time Markov proc…
Effective drag in rotating, poorly conducting plasma turbulence
Santiago J. Benavides, Keaton J. Burns, Basile Gallet +1
Despite the increasing sophistication of numerical models of hot Jupiter atmospheres, the large time-scale separation required in simulating the wide range in electrical conductivi…
Transport and emergent stratification in the equilibrated Eady model: the vortex gas scaling regime
Basile Gallet, Benjamin Miquel, Gabriel Hadjerci +3
We numerically and theoretically investigate the Boussinesq Eady model, where a rapidly rotating density-stratified layer of fluid is subject to a meridional temperature gradient i…
Diversity of growth rates maximizes phytoplankton productivity in an eddying ocean
Mara Freilich, Glenn Flierl, Amala Mahadevan
In the subtropical gyres, phytoplankton rely on eddies for transporting nutrients from depth to the euphotic zone. But, what controls the rate of nutrient supply for new production…
Inverse cascade suppression and shear layer formation in MHD turbulence subject to a guide field and misaligned rotation
Santiago J. Benavides, Keaton J. Burns, Basile Gallet +2
Astrophysical plasmas are often subject to both rotation and large-scale background magnetic fields. Individually, each is known to two-dimensionalize the flow in the perpendicular…
Spontaneous formation of geysers at only one pole on Enceladus' ice shell
Wanying Kang, Glenn Flierl
The ice shell on Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, exhibits strong asymmetry between the northern and southern hemispheres, with all known geysers concentrated over the south pole,…
Two-dimensional partially ionized magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Santiago J. Benavides, Glenn R. Flierl
Ionization occurs in the upper atmospheres of hot Jupiters and in the interiors of Gas Giant Planets, leading to magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects which couple the momentum and the…
Jovian vortices and jets
Glenn R. Flierl, Philip J. Morrison, Rohith Vilasur Swaminathan
We explore the conditions required for isolated vortices to exist in sheared zonal flows and the stability of the underlying zonal winds. This is done using the standard 2-layer qu…
Resonant Activation of Population Extinctions
Christopher Spalding, Charles R. Doering, Glenn R. Flierl
Understanding the mechanisms governing population extinctions is of key importance to many problems in ecology and evolution. Stochastic factors are known to play a central role in…
Convectively driven shear and decreased heat flux
David Goluskin, Hans Johnston, Glenn R. Flierl +1
We report on direct numerical simulations of two-dimensional, horizontally periodic Rayleigh-Bénard convection, focusing on its ability to drive large-scale horizontal flow that is…
Scaling laws for convection and jet speeds in the giant planets
Adam P. Showman, Yohai Kaspi, Glenn R. Flierl
Three-dimensional studies of convection in deep spherical shells have been used to test the hypothesis that the strong jet streams on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune result fr…