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# The steady state solutions to thermohaline circulation equations

• In the article, we study the existence and the regularity of the steady state solutions to thermohaline circulation equations. Firstly, we obtain a sufficient condition of the existence of weak solutions to the equations by acute angle theory of weakly continuous operator. Secondly, we prove the existence of strong solutions to the equations by ADN theory and iteration procedure. Furthermore, we study the generic property of the solutions by Sard-Smale theorem and the existence of classical solutions by ADN theorem.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q35, 35A01; Secondary: 34K21.

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