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# Existence and decay of solutions of the 2D QG equation in the presence of an obstacle

• We continue the study initiated in [16] of dissipative differential equations governing fluid motion in the presence of an obstacle, in which the dissipative term is given by the Laplacian, or a fractional power of the Laplacian. Our main tools are the Ikebe-Ramm transform, and the localized version of the fractional Laplacian due to Caffarelli and Silvestre [5] as improved by Stinga and Torrea [21]. We give applications to the problem of existence of weak solutions of the two dimensional dissipative quasi-geostrophic equation and the decay of these solutions in the $L^2$-norm.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J05, 35P05, 35Q30, 35Q35.

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