Mathematical Analysis of Geophysical Models and Data Assimilation
Main Topics:
Navier-Stokes and Euler equations
Global regularity of certain geophysical flows
Data assimilation algorithm for weather and climate prediction
Overview:
The basic problem faced in geophysical fluid dynamics is that a mathematical description based only on fundamental physical principles, which are called the "Primitive Equations", is often prohibitively expensive computationally, and hard to study analytic ally.
In these introductory lectures, aimed towards advanced Master and Graduate Students and PostD ocs, the compact course with Edriss Titi will survey the mathematical theory of the 2D and 3D Navier Stokes and Euler equations, and stress the main obstacles in proving the global regularity for the 3D case, and the computational challenge in their direct numerical simulations. In addition, the professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science will emphasize the issues facing the turbulence community in their turb ulence closure models.
However, taking advantage of certain geophysical balances and situations, such as geostrophic balance and the shallowness of the ocean and atmosphere, he will show how geophysicists derive more simplified models which are easier to study analytically. In particular, E. Titi will prove the global regularity for 3D planetary geophysical models and the Primitive equations of large scale oceanic and atmospheric dynamics with various kinds of anisotropic viscosity and diffusion.
Moreover, the compact course will also show that for a certain class of initial data the solutions of the inviscid 2D and 3D Primitive Equations blowup (develop a singularity) in finite time. Furthermore, the professor will present some recent results conc erning the regularity of certain tropical atmospheric models, and the Primitive equations, coupled to microphysics equations of moisture and clouds formation. Finally, Edriss Titi will also discuss some new algorithms for feedback control and data assimila tion for the Navier Stokes equations and other atmospheric and climate models.
Schedule:
Friday 26.06.20, 14:00:
Inauguration lecture within MATH+ Friday
14:00 – 14:15
Welcome and organizational information
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rupert Klein (CRC 1114 Spokesman and member of MATH+ Board)
14:15 – 15:45
Mathematics of Turbulent Flows: A Million Dollars Problem
Prof. Dr. Edriss Titi
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Turbulence is a classical physical phenomenon that has been a great challenge to mathematicians, physicists, engineers and computational scientists. In the end of the last century, chaos theory was developed to explore similar phenomena that occur in a wide range of applied sciences, but the eyes have always been on the big ball – Turbulence. Controlling and identifying the onset of turbulence have a great economic and industrial impact ranging from reducing the drag on cars and commercial airplanes to better design of fuel engines, weather and climate predictions.
It is widely accepted by the scientific community that turbulent flows are governed by the Navier-Stokes equations, for large Reynolds numbers, i.e. when the nonlinear advective effects dominate the linear viscous effects (internal friction within the fluids) in the Navier-Stokes equations. As such, the Navier-Stokes equations form the main building block in any fluid model, in particular in global climate models. Whether the solutions to the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations remain smooth, indefinitely in time, is one of the most challenging mathematical problems.
Therefore, by the turn of the millennium, it was identified by the Clay Institute of Mathematics as one of the seven most outstanding Millennium Problems in mathematics, and it has set one million US dollars prize for solving it. Notably, reliable computer simulations of turbulent flows is way out of reach even for the most powerful state-of-the art supercomputers. In this talk the main challenges that the different scientific communities are facing while attempting to attack this problem are described using layman language. In particular, the mathematical point of view of turbulence will be emphazied.
Monday 29.06.20, 12:00 – 14:00:
Navier-Stokes and Euler equations - a quick survey I
Wednesday 01.07.20, 16:00 – 18:00:
Navier-Stokes and Euler equations - a quick survey II
Friday 03.07.20, 14:00 – 16:00:
Global regularity of certain geophysical flows I
Monday 06.07.20, 12:00 – 14:00:
Global regularity of certain geophysical flows II
Wednesday 08.07.20, 16:00 – 18:00:
A data assimilation algorithm for weather and climate prediction I
Friday 10.07.20, 14:00 – 16:00:
A data assimilation algorithm for weather and climate prediction II
Registration:
The course is open to all advanced Master and PhD students as well as PostDocs of the CRC 1114 and BMS. It will be held in English and is free of charge. It is recommended to participate on all days.
To register, please send an email to Kristine Al Zoukra at gs-sfb1114@lists.fu-berlin.de by May 29th 2020.