Boundary layer formation in the quasigeostrophic model near nonperiodic rough coasts

TL;DR

This paper analyzes boundary layer formation in a quasigeostrophic ocean model near nonperiodic rough coasts, establishing well-posedness and generalizing previous periodic irregularity results.

Contribution

It provides a complete asymptotic analysis of boundary layers near nonperiodic rough coasts in a quasigeostrophic model, extending prior periodic boundary results.

Findings

Established well-posedness of boundary layer equations

Analyzed boundary layer behavior with rough coastlines

Generalized previous periodic irregularity results

Abstract

We study the so-called homogeneous model of wind-driven ocean circulation, also known as the single-layer quasigeostrophic model. Our attention focuses on performing a complete asymptotic analysis that highlights boundary layer formation along the coastal line. We assume rough coasts without any particular structure, resulting in the study of a nonlinear PDE system for the western boundary layer in an infinite domain. As a consequence, we look for the solution in nonlocalized Sobolev spaces. Under this hypothesis, the eastern boundary layer exhibits a singular behavior at low frequencies far from the rough boundary leading to issues with convergence. The problem is tackled by imposing ergodicity properties. We establish the well-posedness of the governing boundary layer equations and the approximate solution. Our results generalize the ones in the paper of Bresch and G\'erard-Varet (Commun. Math. Phys. (1) 253: (2005), 81-119) in the context of periodic irregularities.