On the Local Well-posedness of the Prandtl and Hydrostatic Euler Equations with Multiple Monotonicity Regions

We find a new class of data for which the Prandtl boundary layer equations and the hydrostatic Euler equations are locally in time well-posed. In the case of the Prandtl equations, if the initial datum u₀ is monotone on a number of intervals (on some strictly increasing, on some strictly decreasing) and analytic on the complement of these intervals, we show that the local existence and uniqueness hold. The same result is true for the hydrostatic Euler equations if we assume these conditions for the initial vorticity ω₀=∂y u₀.