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Patch solutions for the surface quasigeostrophic (SQG) equation model sharp temperature fronts in atmospheric and oceanic flows. We establish local well-posedness for SQG sharp fronts of low Sobolev regularity, $H^{2+s}$ for arbitrarily…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Francisco Gancedo , Huy Q. Nguyen , Neel Patel

In this paper we study the time evolution of a temperature patch in $R^2$ according to the modified Surface Quasi-Geostrophic Equation (SQG) patch equation. In particular we give a temporal estimate on the growth of the support, providing a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Roberto Garra

This paper studies the dissipative generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equations in a supercritical regime where the order of the dissipation is small relative to order of the velocity, and the velocities are less regular than the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Michael S. Jolly , Anuj Kumar , Vincent R. Martinez

This paper investigates time-periodic solutions of both the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation and its generalized form (gSQG) within the more singular regime, focusing on the evolution of patch-type structures. Assuming the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Edison Cuba , Lucas C. F. Ferreira

We consider a nonlinear, spatially-nonlocal initial value problem in one space dimension on $\mathbb{R}$ that describes the motion of surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) fronts. We prove that the initial value problem has a unique local smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-09 John K. Hunter , Jingyang Shu , Qingtian Zhang

We prove local well-posedness in the Sobolev spaces $\dot H^s(\mathbb{T})$, with $s>7/2$, for an initial value problem for a nonlocal, cubically nonlinear, dispersive equation that provides an approximate description of the evolution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 John K. Hunter , Jingyang Shu , Qingtian Zhang

We study the statistical and geometrical properties of the potential temperature (PT) field in the Surface Quasigeostrophic (SQG) system of equations. In addition to extracting information in a global sense via tools such as the power…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jai Sukhatme , Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

We give an alternative proof of the nonuniqueness of weak solutions to the surface quasigeostrophic equation (SQG) first shown in [Buckmaster-Shkoller-Vicol, '16]. Our approach proceeds directly at the level of the scalar field.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Philip Isett , Andrew Ma

In this paper, we prove local existence and uniqueness of analytic sharp-front solutions to a generalised SQG equation by the use of an abstract Cauchy--Kowalevskaya theorem. Here, the velocity is determined by $u =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Calvin Khor , José L. Rodrigo

In this paper we consider a family of active scalars with a velocity field given by $u = \Lambda^{-1+\alpha}\nabla^{\perp} \theta$, for $\alpha \in (0,1)$. This family of equations is a more singular version of the two-dimensional Surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Calvin Khor , José L. Rodrigo

We study the two-dimensional surface quasi-geostrophic equation. Motivated by the uniqueness for the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, we demonstrate that the uniqueness of the mild solution of the two-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Tsukasa Iwabuchi , Ryoma Ueda

This paper aims to study the existence of asymmetric solutions for the two-dimensional generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equations of simply connected patches for $\alpha\in[1,2)$ in the whole plane, where $\alpha=1$ corresponds…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Edison Cuba , Lucas C. F. Ferreira

We introduce and analyze a class of Surface Quasi-Geostrophic (SQG) equations in the presence of moving rigid obstacles. The model is motivated both by vortex-wave type asymptotics for singular structures in active scalar equations and by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Ludovic Godard-Cadillac , Arnab Roy

We study solutions to the $\alpha$-SQG equations, which interpolate between the incompressible Euler and surface quasi-geostrophic equations. We extend prior results on existence of bounded patches, proving propagation of $H^k$-regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 David M. Ambrose , Fazel Hadadifard , James P. Kelliher

This paper is devoted to the mathematical analysis of a thermomechanical model describing phase transitions in terms of the entropy and order structure balance law. We consider a macroscopic description of the phenomenon and make a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-11 Elena Bonetti , Pierluigi Colli , Mauro Fabrizio , Gianni Gilardi

In this paper, we investigate the existence of a finite number of vortex patches for the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equations with $\alpha \in [1,2)$, focusing on configurations that may rotate uniformly, translate, or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Edison Cuba

In this paper, we show that the global solution of the surface anisotropic two-dimensional quasi-geostrophic equation with fractional horizontal dissipation and vertical thermal diffusion established by the author in [2] is bounded in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Mustapha Amara

We study the Cauchy problem for the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equations in a two-dimensional bounded domain with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. We establish the unique existence of strong solutions in the critical Besov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Tsukasa Iwabuchi

We study the evolution of corner-like patch solutions to the generalized SQG equations. Depending on the angle size and order of the velocity kernel, the corner instantaneously bents either downward or upward. In particular, we obtain the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Junekey Jeon , In-Jee Jeong

The dynamics of large eddies in the atmosphere and oceans is described by the surface quasi geostrophic equation, which is reminiscent of the Euler equations. Thermal fronts build up rapidly. Two different numerical methods combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Peter Constantin , Qing Nie , Norbert Schorghofer
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