Particle relabelling symmetries and Noether's theorem for vertical slice models

Cotter Colin J.; Cullen Michael John Priestley

doi:10.3934/jgm.2019007

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2019, Volume 11, Issue 2: 139-151. Doi: 10.3934/jgm.2019007 open access

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Particle relabelling symmetries and Noether's theorem for vertical slice models

Cotter Colin J.^1, , and
Cullen Michael John Priestley^2,

1.
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
2.
Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, UK

^* Corresponding author: C. J. Cotter
^* Corresponding author: C. J. Cotter

CJC is supported by NERC grant NE/K012533/1.
Michael John Priestley Cullen's contribution is Crown Copyright.

Received: December 2017

Revised: July 2018

Published: June 2019

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We consider the variational formulation for vertical slice models introduced in Cotter and Holm (Proc Roy Soc, 2013). These models have a Kelvin circulation theorem that holds on all materially-transported closed loops, not just those loops on isosurfaces of potential temperature. Potential vorticity conservation can be derived directly from this circulation theorem. In this paper, we show that this property is due to these models having a relabelling symmetry for every single diffeomorphism of the vertical slice that preserves the density, not just those diffeomorphisms that preserve the potential temperature. This is developed using the methodology of Cotter and Holm (Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2012).

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q35, 37K05.

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