Study of a nonlinear boundary-value problem of geophysical relevance

Kateryna Marynets

doi:10.3934/dcds.2019194

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2019, Volume 39, Issue 8: 4771-4781. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019194

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Study of a nonlinear boundary-value problem of geophysical relevance

Kateryna Marynets^,

Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien, Austria

^* Corresponding author: Kateryna Marynets
^* Corresponding author: Kateryna Marynets

The paper is for the special theme: Mathematical Aspects of Physical Oceanography, organized by Adrian Constantin

Received: October 2018

Revised: December 2018

Published: May 2019

The author is supported by the WWTF research grant MA16-009

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We present some results on the existence and uniqueness of solutions of a two-point nonlinear boundary value problem that arises in the modeling of the flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34B15; Secondary: 86A05.

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Figure 1. Depiction of the azimuthal and polar spherical coordinates $ \varphi \in [0,2\pi) $ and $ \theta \in [0,\pi] $ of a point $ P $ on the spherical surface of the Earth: $ \theta = 0 $ corresponds to the North Pole and $ \theta = \pi/2 $ to the Equator

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Figure 2. The unit vectors of the coordinate system on the eastward rotating spherical Earth, with $ e_{\varphi} $ pointing in the azimuthal direction

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Figure 3. Depiction of the stereographic projection $ P \mapsto P' $ from the North Pole to the equatorial plane, illustrated for a location that corresponds to the region where the Antarctic Circumplolar Current is encountered

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