Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Vol.73, No.3, 501-522, 2016
Existence and Regularity Results for the Inviscid Primitive Equations with Lateral Periodicity
The article is devoted to prove the existence and regularity of the solutions of the 3D inviscid Linearized Primitive Equations (LPEs) in a channel with lateral periodicity. This was assumed in a previous work (Hamouda et al. in Discret Contin Dyn Syst Ser S 6(2):401-422, 2013) which is concerned with the boundary layers generated by the corresponding viscous problem. Although the equations under investigation here are of hyperbolic type, the standard methods do not apply because of the specificity of the hyperbolic system. A set of non-local boundary conditions for the inviscid LPEs has to be imposed at the lateral boundary of the channel making thus the system well-posed.
Keywords:Primitive equations;Existence;uniqueness;and regularity theory;Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic equations