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Variational Principle and Stochastic Lagrangian Formulation of Viscous Hydrodynamic Equations

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-02 v2

Abstract

In this manuscript, we extend Constantin-Iyer's Lagrangian formulation of Navier-Stokes Equation to a wider class of hydrodynamic models. Moreover, we prove that such Lagrangian formulation is naturally derived from a stochastic Hamilton-Pontryagin type variational principle. Generalized version of Kelvin circulation theorem in viscous fluids is also discussed. We also derive self-contained local well-posedness results of fluid models based on Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation using fixed point argument.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21498,
  title  = {Variational Principle and Stochastic Lagrangian Formulation of Viscous Hydrodynamic Equations},
  author = {Anna Mazzucato and Anping Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21498},
  year   = {2025}
}

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37 pages