Abstract
A recent model for the flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, formulated in spherical coordinates as a Dirichlet boundary-value problem for a nonlinear elliptic partial differential equation, reduces for flows with no azimuthal variations to a two-point boundary-value problem for a second-order ordinary differential equation. We provide some general settings for which these apparently simpler solutions are the unique solutions, due to an inherent symmetry of the model.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 561-565 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Monatshefte fur Mathematik |
Volume | 188 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Mar 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Elliptic equation
- Geophysical flow
- Maximum principle