- Series
- SIAM Student Seminar
- Time
- Friday, November 12, 2010 - 1:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 255
- Speaker
- Mark Sedjro – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Benjamin Webb
Almost axisymmetric flows are derived from Boussinesq equations
for incompressible fluids. They are supposed to capture special features in
tropical cyclones. We establish an unusual minimax equality as the first
step towards studying this challenging problem. I will review some basic
techniques of the calculus of variations.