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The inviscid barotropic quasi-geostrophic equation with a free surface is considered. The free surface mandates a non-standard boundary condition. The global existence existence and uniqueness of a weak solution is established, thanks to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Qingshan Chen

Quasi-geostrophic flow is an asymptotic theory for flows in rotating systems that are in geostrophic balance to leading order. It is characterized by the conservation of (quasi-geostrophic) potential vorticity and weak vertical flows.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-19 Mac Lee , Stefan Llewellyn Smith

Turbulent behavior of the two-parameter family of generalized surface quasigeostrophic equations is examined both rigorously and numerically. We adapt a cascade mechanism argument to derive an energy spectrum that scales as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-20 Chengzhang Fu , Michael S. Jolly , Anuj Kumar , Vincent R. Martinez

Topological boundary and interface modes are generated in an acoustic waveguide by simple quasi-periodic patternings of the walls. The procedure opens many topological gaps in the resonant spectrum and qualitative as well as quantitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 David J. Apigo , Wenting Cheng , Kyle F. Dobiszewski , Emil Prodan , Camelia Prodan

Inspired by recent developments in Berdina-like models for turbulence, we propose an inviscid regularization for the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equations. We are particularly interested in the celebrated question of blowup in finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Boualem Khouider , Edriss S. Titi

We study the singularity formation mechanisms of the inviscid generalized Surface Quasi-Geostrophic (gSQG) equation on the whole space $\mathbb{R}^2$ and on the upper half-plane $\mathbb{R}^2_+$, allowing infinite energy. In each case, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Thomas Y. Hou , Xiang Qin , Yannick Sire , Yantao Wu

The quasigeostrophic model is a simplified geophysical fluid model at asymptotically high rotation rate or at small Rossby number. We consider the quasigeostrophic equation with dissipation under random forcing in bounded domains. We show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James R. Brannan , Jinqiao Duan , Thomas Wanner

The generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (GSQG) equations are transport equations for an active scalar that depend on a parameter $0<\alpha \le 2$. Special cases are the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations ($\alpha = 2$) and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-29 John K. Hunter , Jingyang Shu , Qingtian Zhang

This paper investigates a novel mechanism for quasi-singularity formation in both linear and nonlinear hyperbolic wave equations in two and three dimensions. We prove that over any finite time interval, there exist inputs such that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Huaian Diao , Xieling Fan , Hongyu Liu

Stability analysis is performed on surface quasigeostrophic systems subjected to a Kolmogorov-type "shear force" on the boundaries using linear and nonlinear approaches. For a SQG system of semi-infinite depth forced on the upper boundary,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-17 Mac Lee , Stefan Llewellyn Smith

In the present study, we find that the surface quasi-geostrophic equation admits exact solutions, which evolve with time in quasi-stationary states. The solutions presented are available for any dissipation effect $\kappa (-\Delta)^\alpha$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Zhi-Min Chen

In this paper, we study the existence of global classical solutions to the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equation. By using the variational method, we provide some new families of global classical solutions for to the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Daomin Cao , Guolin Qin , Weicheng Zhan , Changjun Zou

In this work, we investigate the blow-up of solutions to the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equation in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$, within the more singular range $\beta\in(1,2)$ for the coupling of the velocity field. This behavior is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Lucas C. F. Ferreira , Ricardo M. M. Guimarães

Others have solved the Schr\"odinger equation for a one-dimensional model having a square potential barrier in free-space by requiring an incident and a reflected wave in the semi-infinite pre-barrier region, two opposing waves in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Mark J. Hagmann

We consider homogeneous (stationary self-similar) solutions to the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equations parametrized by the constant $0<s<1$, representing the 2D Euler equations ($s=1$), the SQG equations $(s=1/2)$, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Ken Abe , Javier Gómez-Serrano , In-Jee Jeong

We consider the asymptotic behavior of the surface quasi-geostrophic equation, subject to a small external force. Under suitable assumptions on the forcing, we first construct the steady states and we provide a number of useful a posteriori…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Fazel Hadadifard , Atanas G. Stefanov

In this paper, we study the existence of rotating and traveling-wave solutions for the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equation. The solutions are obtained by maximization of the energy over the set of rearrangements of a fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Daomin Cao , Guolin Qin , Weicheng Zhan , Changjun Zou

he quasigeostrophic model describes large scale and relatively slow fluid motion in geophysical flows. We investigate the quasigeostrophic model under random forcing and random boundary conditions. We first transform the model into a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jinqiao Duan , Peter E. Kloeden , Bjorn Schmalfuss

The 2D quasi-geostrophic (QG) equation is a two dimensional model of the 3D incompressible Euler equations. When dissipation is included in the model then solutions always exist if the dissipation's wave number dependence is super-linear.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Constantin , D. Cordoba , J. Wu

This work involves theoretical and numerical analysis of the Thermal Quasi-Geostrophic (TQG) model of submesoscale geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). Physically, the TQG model involves thermal geostrophic balance, in which the Rossby number,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Dan Crisan , Darryl D. Holm , Erwin Luesink , Prince Romeo Mensah , Wei Pan