Justification of the Hydrostatic Approximation of the Primitive Equations in Anisotropic Space $L^\infty_H L^q_{x_3}(\Torus^3)$

Abstract

The primitive equations are fundamental models in geophysical fluid dynamics and derived from the scaled Navier-Stokes equations. In the primitive equations, the evolution equation to the vertical velocity is replaced by the so-called hydrostatic approximation. In this paper, we give a justification of the hydrostatic approximation by the scaled Navier-Stoke equations in anisotropic spaces $L^\infty_H L^q_{x_3} (\Torus^3)$ for $q \geq 1$.