Mathematical Problems of the Dynamics of Incompressible Fluid on a Rotating Sphere

This book presents selected mathematical problems involving the dynamics of a two-dimensional viscous and ideal incompressible fluid on a rotating sphere. In this case, the fluid motion is completely governed by the barotropic vorticity equation (BVE), and the viscosity term in the vorticity equation is taken in its general form, which contains the derivative of real degree of the spherical Laplace operator.

Yuri N. Skiba is a senior researcher at the Center for Atmospheric Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and head of the Mathematical Modeling of Atmospheric Processes group. He holds a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1979) and a Master in Theoretical Mechanics from the State University of Novosibirsk (1971). He serves as both associate editor and reviewer for several journals. His fields of interest include computational and mathematical modeling, thermodynamic and hydrodynamic modeling, nonlinear fluid dynamics, numerical analysis of PDEs, transport of pollutants, and optimal control of emission rates.