Mathematical study of the equatorial Ekman boundary layer

DOI10.1007/S00033-019-1209-9MaRDI QIDQ2279195zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jean Rax

Publication date 12 December 2019

Published in ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09185

zbMATH Keywords

boundary layerdegenerate elliptic systemEkman layergeophysical fluids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) PDEs in connection with geophysics (35Q86) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

Abstract: In this paper we study the well-posedness of a simple model of boundary layer for rotating fluids between two concentric spheres near the equator. We show that this model can be seen as a degenerate elliptic equation , for which we prove an existence result thanks to a Lax-Milgram type lemma. We also prove uniqueness under an additional integrability assumption and present a transparent boundary condition for such layers.

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