Point vortices for inviscid generalized surface quasi-geostrophic models

Carina Geldhauser; Marco Romito

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2020023

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2020, Volume 25, Issue 7: 2583-2606. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020023

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Point vortices for inviscid generalized surface quasi-geostrophic models

Carina Geldhauser^1, and
Marco Romito^2,

1.
School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Rd, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom
2.
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5, I–56127 Pisa, Italia

Carina Geldhauser, http://www.cgeldhauser.de
Marco Romito, http://people.dm.unipi.it/romito

Received: December 31, 2018

Early access: April 2020

Published: July 2020

The first author was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the context of TU Dresden's Institutional Strategy "The Synergetic University". The second author acknowledges the partial support of the University of Pisa, through project PRA 2018_49

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We give a rigorous proof of the validity of the point vortex description for a class of inviscid generalized surface quasi-geostrophic models on the whole plane.

Keywords:

Inviscid generalized surface quasi-geostrophic,
weak solutions,
point vortex motion,
vortex approximation,
localization,
stability.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 76B47, 76M23; Secondary: 76E20, 86A99.

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