The simplifications required to apply the Boussinesq approximation to compressible flow are compared with those in an incompressible fluid. The larger degree of approximation required to describe mass conservation in a stratified compressible fluid with the Boussinesq continuity equation has led to the development of several different sets of “anelastic” equations that may be regarded as genera...

New nonlinear evolution equations are derived that generalize those presented in a Letter by Matsuno [Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 609 (1992)]] and a terrain-following Boussinesq system recently deduced by Nachbin [SIAM J Appl. Math. 63, 905 (2003)]]. The regime considers finite-amplitude surface gravity waves on a two-dimensional incompressible and inviscid fluid of, highly variable, finite depth. A F...

This paper is divided in two parts. In the first part, a brief review of a spectral element method for the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is given. The method is then extended to compute buoyant flows described by the Boussinesq approximation. Free convection in closed two-dimensional cavities are computed and the results are in very good agreement with the ava...

We prove the global well-posedness of the viscous incompressible Boussinesq equations in two spatial dimensions for general initial data in Hm with m ≥ 3. It is known that when both the velocity and the density equations have finite positive viscosity, the Boussinesq system does not develop finite time singularities. We consider here the challenging case when viscosity enters only in the veloci...

We study numerically a recently introduced formulation of incompressible Newtonian fluid equations in vorticity – helical density and velocity – Bernoulli pressure variables. Unlike most numerical methods based on vorticity equations, the current approach provides discrete solutions with mass conservation, divergencefree vorticity, and accurate kinetic energy balance in a simple and natural way...

Efficient parallel algorithms are required to simulate incompressible turbulent flows in complex twoand three-dimensional domains. The incompressible Navier–Stokes equations are discretized in general coordinates on a structured grid. For a flow on a general domain we use an unstructured decomposition of the domain into subdomains of simple shape, with a structured grid inside each subdomain. W...

This paper studies solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Boussinesq equations with fractional dissipation. The spatial domain is a periodic box. The Boussinesq equations concerned here govern the coupled evolution of the fluid velocity and the temperature and have applications in fluid mechanics and geophysics. When the dissipation is in the supercritical regime (the sum of the fracti...

We study two coupled systems of nonlinear partial differential equations, namely, generalized Boussinesq-Burgers equations and 2 1 -dimensional Davey-Stewartson equations. The Lie symmetry method is utilized to obtain exact solutions of the generalized Boussinesq-Burgers equations. The travelling wave hypothesis approach is used to find exact solutions of the 2 1 dimensional Davey-Stewartson eq...

In this paper, we consider the three-dimensional rotating Boussinesq equations (the “primitive” of geophysical fluid flows). Inspired by Christodoulou and Lindblad (Pure Appl Math 53:1536–1602, 2000), establish a priori estimates Sobolev norms for free boundary problem inviscid under Taylor-type sign condition on initial boundary. Using same method, can also obtain incompressible MHD system wit...