Global strong well-posedness of the three dimensional primitive equations in L^p-spaces

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Abstract: In this article, an Lp-approach to the primitive equations is developed. In particular, it is shown that the three dimensional primitive equations admit a unique, global strong solution for all initial data ain[Xp,D(Ap)]1/p provided pin[6/5,infty). To this end, the hydrostatic Stokes operator Ap defined on Xp, the subspace of Lp associated with the hydrostatic Helmholtz projection, is introduced and investigated. Choosing p large, one obtains global well-posedness of the primitive equations for strong solutions for initial data a having less differentiability properties than H1, hereby generalizing in particular a result by Cao and Titi (Ann. Math. 166 (2007), pp. 245-267) to the case of non-smooth initial data.


The authors discuss the primitive equations \(\partial_t v+u \cdot \nabla v-\Delta v+ \nabla_H \pi = f\), \(\partial_z \pi=0\), \(\operatorname{div} u=0\), in \(\Omega \times (0,T)\) where \(\Omega =(0,1)^2\times (-h,0)\) with positive \(h\), \(\nabla\) is the three-dimensional gradient, \(\nabla_H\) is the two-dimensional gradient in \((x,y)\). The initial-boundary conditions are posed. The authors prove the existence of a unique global strong solution in \(L^p\). The exponential decay of the solution is established as \(t \to \infty\).



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