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We study the representation of solutions of the three-dimensional quasigeostrophic (QG) equations using Galerkin series with standard vertical modes, with particular attention to the incorporation of active surface buoyancy dynamics. We…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Cesar B. Rocha , William R. Young , Ian Grooms

We provide a variational construction of special solutions to the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equations. These solutions take the form of N vortex patches with N-fold symmetry , which are steady in a uniformly rotating frame.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-19 Ludovic Godard-Cadillac , Philippe Gravejat , Didier Smets

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 present a formal derivation of the inviscid 3D quasi-geostrophic system (QG) from primitive equations on a bounded, cylindrical domain. A key point in the derivation is the treatment of the lateral boundary and the resulting boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Matthew Novack , Alexis Vasseur

The inviscid multi-layer quasi-geostrophic equations are considered over an arbitrary bounded domain. The no-flux but non-homogeneous boundary conditions are imposed to accommodate the free fluctuations of the top and layer interfaces.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Qingshan Chen

This article studies point-vortex models for the Euler and surface quasi-geostrophic equations. In the case of an inviscid fluid with planar motion, the point-vortex model gives account of dynamics where the vorticity profile is sharply…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Ludovic Godard-Cadillac

We consider the generalized Surface Quasi-Geostrophic point vortices dynamics, and identify a sufficient condition implying existence of bursts out of (and collapses into) any given initial configuration of vortices. The condition is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Francesco Grotto , Umberto Pappalettera

In this paper, we show the existence of the first non trivial family of classical global solutions of the inviscid surface quasi-geostrophic equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Javier Gómez-Serrano

In this article we consider the low regularity well-posedness of the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) front equation. Recent work on other quasilinear models, including the gravity water waves system and nonlinear waves, have demonstrated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Albert Ai , Ovidiu-Neculai Avadanei

We study the existence of different vortex-wave systems for inviscid gSQG flow, where the total circulation are produced by point vortices and vortices with compact support. To overcome several difficulties caused by the singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Daomin Cao , Shanfa Lai , Changjun Zou

In this article, the authors prove the existence of global weak solutions to the inviscid three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic equation. This equation models the evolution of the temperature on the surface of the earth. It is widely used in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Marjolaine Puel , Alexis F. Vasseur

We study the temporal fluctuations of the flux of surface potential energy in Surface Quasi-Geostrophic (SQG) turbulence. By means of high-resolution, direct numerical simulations of the SQG model in the regime of forced and dissipated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-12 V. J. Valadão , T. Ceccotti , G. Boffetta , S. Musacchio

We prove non-uniqueness of weak solutions to the forced $\alpha$-SQG equation with Sobolev regularity $W^{s,p}$ in the supercritical regime $s < \alpha + \frac{2}{p}$, covering the 2D Euler equation ($\alpha = 0$), the Surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Ángel Castro , Daniel Faraco , Francisco Mengual , Marcos Solera

This monograph addresses an important problem in mathematical fluid dynamics: constructing stable, long-term solutions to certain quasilinear evolution equations. We implement an elaborate scheme for building global quasiperiodic solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Javier Gómez-Serrano , Alexandru D. Ionescu , Jaemin Park

We propose a novel algorithm for the approximation of surface-quasi geostrophic (SQG) flows modeled by a nonlinear partial differential equation coupling transport and fractional diffusion phenomena. The time discretization consists of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Andrea Bonito , Murtazo Nazarov

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

In this paper, we introduce the concepts of m-quasiconvex, originally m-quasiconvex,and generalized m-quasiconvex functionals on topological vector spaces. Then we extend the concept of point separable topological vector spaces (by the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Jinlu Li

In this paper, we prove the existence of relative equilibria with holes for quasi-geostrophic shallow-water equations. More precisely, using bifurcation techniques, we establish for any m large enough the existence of two branches of m-fold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Emeric Roulley

This is the second part of the two-paper sequence, which aims to present a comprehensive study for current-vortex sheets in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The local well-posedness of current-vortex sheets with surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Junyan Zhang

Geophysical turbulent flows, characterized by rapid rotation, quantified by small Rossby number, and stable stratification, often self-organize into a collection of coherent vortices, referred to as a vortex gas. The lowest order asymptotic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-14 Jeffrey B. Weiss