Long-time existence for the 2D ideal Boussinesq and the 2D density-dependent Euler equations

Abstract

We establish long-time existence of smooth solutions to the 2D ideal Boussinesq equations and to the 2D non-homogeneous incompressible Euler equations for initial data consisting of small temperature perturbations, or small density perturbations, of smooth initial flows which are not necessarily small. Both results are known (see Danchin and Fanelli 2013, Danchin 2011 in the references) but the technique we develop to prove them is at the same time elementary and has broad potential applicability.