Global persistence of geometrical structures for the boussinesq equation with no diffusion

Abstract

Here we investigate the so-called temperature patch problem for the incompressible Boussinesq system with partial viscosity, in the whole space ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ $(N\ge 2)$, where the initial temperature is the characteristic function of some simply connected domain with $C^{1,\epsilon }$ H{ö}lder regularity. Although recent results in [1, 15] ensure that an initially $C^1$ patch persists through the evolution, whether higher regularity is preserved has remained an open question. In the present paper, we give a positive answer to that issue globally in time, in the 2-D case for large initial data and in the higher dimension case for small initial data.