TY - JOUR T1 - Global $H^2$-Regularity Results of the 3D Primitive Equations of the Ocean JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 3 SP - 452 EP - 477 PY - 2014 DA - 2014/11 SN - 11 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/537.html KW - Primitive equations, ocean, regularity. AB -

In this article, we consider the 3D viscous primitive equations (PEs for brevity) of the ocean under two physically relevant boundary conditions for the $H^1$ and $H^2$ smooth initial data, respectively. The $H^2$ regularity result of the solution for the viscous PEs of the ocean has been unknown since the work by Cao and Titi [3], and Kobelkov [26]. In this article we provide the global $H^2$-regularity results of the solution and its time derivatives for the 3D viscous primitive equations of the ocean by using the $L^6$ estimates developed in [3] and some new energy estimate techniques.