Dynamic mode decomposition to retrieve torsional Alfvén waves [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13095


Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is utilised to identify the intrinsic signals arising from planetary interiors. Focusing on an axisymmetric quasi-geostrophic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave -called torsional Alfv\'{e}n waves (TW) – we examine the utility of DMD in two types of MHD direct numerical simulations: Boussinesq magnetoconvection and anelastic convection-driven dynamos in rapidly rotating spherical shells, which model the dynamics in Earth’s core and in Jupiter, respectively. We demonstrate that DMD is capable of distinguishing internal modes and boundary/interface-related modes from the timeseries of the internal velocity. Those internal modes may be realised as free TW, in terms of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of their normal mode solutions. Meanwhile it turns out that, in order to account for the details, the global TW eigenvalue problems in spherical shells need to be further addressed.

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K. Hori, S. Tobias and R. Teed
Tue, 29 Sep 20
91/98

Comments: 7 pages, 11 figures, Proceedings of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics Annual Meeting 2020, Virtual, 18-20 September 2020