Existence results for mean field equations with turbulence

Abstract

In this paper we consider the following form of the so-called Mean field equation arising from the statistical mechanics description of two dimensional turbulence \begin{equation}\label{eq:study} - \D_g u = ρ_1 (\frac{e^{u}}{\int_\Sig e^{u} dV_g}-1)-ρ_2 (\frac{e^{-u}}{\int_\Sig e^{-u} dV_g} - 1) \end{equation} on a given closed orientable Riemannian surface ($Σ, g$) with volume 1, where $ρ_1, ρ_2$ are real parameters. Exploiting the variational structure of the problem and running a min-max scheme introduced by Djadli and Malchiodi, we prove that if $k$ is a positive integer, $ρ_1$ and $ρ_2$ two real numbers such that $ρ_1\in (8kπ, 8(k+1)π)$ and $ρ_2<4π$ then $\eqref{eq:study}$ is solvable.