The Primitive equations approximation of the anisotropic horizontally viscous 3D Navier-Stokes equations

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Li, Jinkai 
Yuan, Guozhi 

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In this paper, we provide rigorous justification of the hydrostatic approximation and the derivation of primitive equations as the small aspect ratio limit of the incompressible three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the anisotropic horizontal viscosity regime. Setting ε >0 to be the small aspect ratio of the vertical to the horizontal scales of the domain, we investigate the case when the horizontal and vertical viscosities in the incompressible three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations are of orders O(1) and ε^α, respectively, with α>2, for which the limiting system is the primitive equations with only horizontal viscosity as ε tends to zero. In particular we show that for "well prepared" initial data the solutions of the scaled incompressible three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations converge strongly, in any finite interval of time, to the corresponding solutions of the anisotropic primitive equations with only horizontal viscosities, as ε tends to zero, and that the convergence rate is of order O(ε^(β/2)), where β=min{α-2,2}. Note that this result is different from the case α=2 studied in [Li, J.; Titi, E.S.,The primitive equations as the small aspect ratio limit of the Navier-Stokes equations: Rigorous justification of the hydrostatic approximation, J. Math. Pures Appl., Vol. 124, (2019), 30-58], where the limiting system is the primitive equations with full viscosities and the convergence is globally in time and its rate of order O(ε).

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2021-11-04
Acceptance Date
2021-10-26
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Journal of Differential Equations
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0022-0396
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Elsevier
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Einstein Stiftung/Foundation-Berlin, Einstein Visiting Fellowship No. EVF-2017-358.