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Vortex motion for the lake equations

Analysis of PDEs 2020-04-16 v2

Abstract

The lake equations {(bu)=0on R×D,tu+(u)u=hon R×D,uν=0on R×D.\left\{\begin{aligned} \nabla \cdot \big( b \, \mathbf{u}\big) &= 0 & & \text{on}\ \mathbb{R}\times D,\\ \partial_t\mathbf{u} + (\mathbf{u}\cdot \nabla)\mathbf{u} &= -\nabla h & & \text{on}\ \mathbb{R}\times D ,\\ \mathbf{u} \cdot \boldsymbol{\nu} &= 0 & & \text{on}\ \mathbb{R}\times\partial D . \end{aligned}\right. model the vertically averaged horizontal velocity in an inviscid incompressible flow of a fluid in a basin whose variable depth b:D[0,+)b : D \to [0, + \infty) is small in comparison with the size of its two-dimensional projection DR2D \subset \mathbb{R}^2. When the depth bb is positive everywhere in DD and constant on the boundary, we prove that the vorticity of solutions of the lake equations whose initial vorticity concentrates at an interior point is asympotically a multiple of a Dirac mass whose motion is governed by the depth function bb.

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@article{arxiv.1901.01717,
  title  = {Vortex motion for the lake equations},
  author = {Justin Dekeyser and Jean Van Schaftingen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.01717},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Minor revision, 43 pages

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