Related papers: Recent Advances Concerning Certain Class of Geophy…
Atmospheric tides can have a strong impact on the rotational dynamics of planets. They are of most importance for terrestrial planets located in the habitable zone of their host star, where their competition with solid tides is likely to…
The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled to the Maxwell-Stefan relations for the molar fluxes are analyzed in bounded domains with no-flux boundary conditions. The system models the dynamics of a multicomponent gaseous mixture…
We prove global existence of weak solutions to two systems of equations which extend the dynamics of the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous flow with no-slip boundary condition. The systems of equations we consider arise as…
This article covers thermodynamic, dynamic, and kinetic models that are suitable for the analysis of wetting, adsorption, and related interfacial phenomena in colloidal and multiphase systems. Particular emphasis is made on describing…
The present work aims to revisit the simplifications made in the Navier-Stokes equations for the flow between two cylinders with a small thickness of lubricating oil film. Through a dimensionless analysis, the terms of these equations are…
Navier-Stokes equations establish the hydrodynamical problem by definition. The importance of these equations is quite natural to understand if we focus on the role they assume in a large spectrum of dynamical problems which involve…
Long waves in rivers, estuaries and floods are described by the St Venant and Boussinesq equations in classical fluid dynamics. Based on the widely used $k$-$\epsilon$ model for turbulence, we use the techniques of centre manifold theory to…
A formulation of the shallow water equations adapted to general complex terrains is proposed. Its derivation starts from the observation that the typical approach of depth integrating the Navier-Stokes equations along the direction of…
The primary goal of this paper is to develop robust methods to handle two ubiquitous features appearing in the modeling of geophysical flows: (i) the anisotropy of the viscous stress tensor, (ii) stratification effects. We focus on the…
From the free surface Navier-Stokes system, we derive the non-hydrostatic Saint-Venant system for the shallow waters including friction and viscosity. The derivation leads to two formulations of growing complexity depending on the level of…
Loosely speaking, the Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ model and the Navier-Stokes equations differ by a spatial filtration parametrized by a scale denoted $\alpha$. Starting from a strong two-dimensional solution to the Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ model…
Typical multispecies compressible Navier-Stokes computations employ conservative equations for mass fraction transport. Upwind discretisations of these governing equations produce spurious pressure oscillations at diffuse contact surfaces…
For the water-air system, the bulk density ratio is as high as about 1000; no model can fully tackle such a high density ratio system. In the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations, the density $\rho$ within the water-air interface is assumed to…
We discuss a unified flow theory which in a single system of hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) can describe the two main branches of continuum mechanics, fluid dynamics, and solid dynamics. The fundamental difference from the…
In this paper we prove the global existence and uniqueness (regularity) of strong solutions to the three-dimensional viscous primitive equations, which model large scale ocean and atmosphere dynamics.
Inability of low-resolution ocean models to simulate many important aspects of the large-scale general circulation is a common problem. In the view of physics, the main reason for this failure are the missed dynamical effects of the…
Concepts of everyday use like energy, heat, and temperature have acquired a precise meaning after the development of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics provides the basis for understanding how heat and work are related and with the general…
A systematic derivation of a set of equations governing large scale atmospheric motions is presented. They are derived by introducing new variables scaled in terms of a small parameter.The solution is expanded in powers of this…
Models under location uncertainty are derived assuming that a component of the velocity is uncorrelated in time. The material derivative is accordingly modified to include an advection correction, inhomogeneous and anisotropic diffusion…
The anisotropic Navier-Stokes system arises in geophysical fluid dynamics, which is derived by changing $-\nu\D$ in the classical Navier-Stokes system to $-(\nu_1\partial^2_1+\nu_2\partial^2_2+\nu_3\partial^2_3)$. Here…