On the collapse of the local Rayleigh condition and the finite time blow-up for the semi-lagrangian equations

Abstract

In this paper we study the propagation of the local Rayleigh condition for the two-dimensional hydrostatic Euler equation in the framework of the local well-posedness result by Masmoudi and Wong \cite{MaTKW12}. We show under certain assumptions that such solutions will develop singularities or collapse the local Rayleigh condition. In addition, we find necessary conditions for the global solvability. Finally, we establish the finite time blow-up of solutions to the semi-lagrangian equations introduced by Brenier in \cite{Bre99} for certain class of initial data.