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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

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 consider the well-posedness of the surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) front equation. Hunter-Shu-Zhang [9] established well-posedness under a small data condition as well as a convergence condition on an expansion of the equation's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Albert Ai , Ovidiu-Neculai Avadanei

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 consider the well-posedness of the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) front equation. By using the null structure of the equation via a paradifferential normal form analysis, we obtain balanced energy estimates, which allow us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Albert Ai , Ovidiu-Neculai Avadanei

We derive regularized contour dynamics equations for the motion of infinite sharp fronts in the two-dimensional incompressible Euler, surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG), and generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equations. We derive a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-23 John K. Hunter , Jingyang Shu

This paper is about the evolution of a temperature front governed by the Surface quasi-geostrophic equation. The existence part of that program within the scale of Sobolev spaces was obtained by one of the authors [10]. Here we revisit that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Antonio Córdoba , Diego Córdoba , Francisco Gancedo

In this paper we consider the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic $\alpha$-SQG equations, in the "sublinear regime" $\alpha \in (0, 1)$ and we study the stability of vortex patches close to vortex discs. We shall prove that for regular,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Riccardo Montalto , Federico Murgante , Stefano Scrobogna

We establish the well/ill-posedness theories for the inviscid $\alpha$-surface quasi-geostrophic ($\alpha$-SQG) equations in H\"older spaces, where $\alpha = 0$ and $\alpha = 1$ correspond to the two-dimensional Euler equation in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Young-Pil Choi , Jinwook Jung , Junha Kim

We study the global well-posedness of the supercritical dissipative surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation, a key model in geophysical fluid dynamics. While local well-posedness is known, achieving global well-posedness for large initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Aynur Bulut , Hongjie Dong

We show that the generalized SQG equation on the plane is locally well-posed in spaces of low regularity solutions (essentially H\"older continuous with H\"older exponents depending on the equation parameter $\alpha\in(0,\frac 12)$) that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Junekey Jeon , Andrej Zlatos

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 study patch solutions of a family of transport equations given by a parameter $\alpha$, $0< \alpha <2$, with the cases $\alpha =0$ and $\alpha =1$ corresponding to the Euler and the surface quasi-geostrophic equations respectively. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Francisco Gancedo , Neel Patel

We prove local well-posedness for the inviscid surface quasigeostrophic (SQG) equation in bounded domains of $\mathbb{R}^2$. When fractional Dirichlet Laplacian dissipation is added, global existence of strong solutions is obtained for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Peter Constantin , Huy Quang Nguyen

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

We consider the Cauchy problem for the logarithmically singular surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation, introduced by Ohkitani, $$\partial_t \theta - \nabla^\perp \log(10+(-\Delta)^{\frac12})\theta \cdot \nabla \theta = 0 ,$$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Dongho Chae , In-Jee Jeong , Jungkyoung Na , Sung-Jin Oh

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 investigate the well-posedness of $\alpha$-SQG equations in the half-plane, where $\alpha=0$ and $\alpha=1$ correspond to the 2D Euler and SQG equations respectively. For $0<\alpha \le 1/2$, we prove local well-posedness in certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-09 In-Jee Jeong , Junha Kim , Yao Yao

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

In this paper, we prove a sharp local well-posedness result for spherically symmetric solutions to quasilinear wave equations with rough initial data, when the spatial dimension is three or higher. Our approach is based on Morawetz type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Chengbo Wang
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