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Viscous motion in an oceanic circulation model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

A. F. Bennett  and
P. E. Kloeden
A. F. Bennett
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
P. E. Kloeden
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia.
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The barotropic motion of a viscous fluid in a laboratory simulation of ocean circulation may be modelled by Beards ley's vorticity equations. It is established here that these equations have unique smooth solutions which depend continuously on initial conditions. To avoid a boundary condition which involves an integral operator, the vorticity equations are replaced by an equivalent system of momentum equations. The system resembles the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a rotating reference frame. The existence of unique generalized solutions of the system in a square domain is established by modifying arguments used by Ladyzhenskaya for the Navier-Stokes equations. Smoothness of the solutions is then established by modifying Golovkin's arguments, again originally for the Navier- Stokes equations. A numerical procedure for solving the vorticity equations is discussed, as are the effects of reentrant corners in the domain modelling islands and peninsulae.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , June 1981 , pp. 443 - 460
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1981

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