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Starting from the Liouville equation, and using a BBGKY-like hierarchy, we derive a kinetic equation for the point vortex gas in two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamics, taking two-body correlations and collective effects into account. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We develop a kinetic theory of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics taking collective effects into account. We first recall the approach of Dubin & O'Neil [Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1286 (1988)] that leads to a Lenard-Balescu-type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We develop a kinetic theory for point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics. Using standard projection operator technics, we derive a Fokker-Planck equation describing the relaxation of a ``test'' vortex in a bath of ``field'' vortices…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. H. Chavanis

We complete the kinetic theory of two-dimensional (2D) point vortices initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of 2D point vortices submitted to a small external stochastic perturbation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-29 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We develop the kinetic theory of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics and illustrate the main results of the theory with numerical simulations. We first consider the evolution of the system "as a whole" and show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. H. Chavanis , M. Lemou

We present a brief derivation of the kinetic equation describing the secular evolution of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics, by relying on a functional integral formalism. We start from Liouville's equation which describes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-28 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

We discuss the kinetic theory of stellar systems and two-dimensional vortices and stress their analogies. We recall the derivation of the Landau and Lenard-Balescu equations from the Klimontovich formalism. These equations take into account…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We investigate the long-term relaxation of a distribution of $N$ point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics. To focus on the regime of weak collective amplification, we embed these point vortices within a static background potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Kinetic equations are derived from the Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon (BBGKY) hierarchy for point vortex systems in an infinite plane. As the level of approximation for the Landau equation, the collision term of the kinetic equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mitsusada M. Sano

We complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of systems with long-range interactions. Starting from the BBGKY hierarchy, or using projection operator technics or a quasilinear theory, a general kinetic equation can be derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We develop a kinetic theory of systems with long-range interactions taking collective effects and spatial inhomogeneity into account. Starting from the Klimontovich equation and using a quasilinear approximation, we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We review and complete the kinetic theory of spatially inhomogeneous stellar systems when collective effects (dressing of the stars by their polarization cloud) are neglected. We start from the BBGKY hierarchy issued from the Liouville…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We present a kinetic theory for inhomogeneous systems with weak long-range interactions. Starting from the Klimontovich equation and using a quasilinear theory, we obtain a closed kinetic equation describing the relaxation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

This paper derives a kinetic equation for a two-dimensional single species point vortex system. We consider a situation (different from the ones considered previously) of weak mean flow where the time scale of the macroscopic motion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-28 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The aim of these notes is to present in a comprehensive and relatively self-contained way some recent developments in the mathematical analysis of two-dimensional viscous flows. We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Thierry Gallay

The kinetic theory description of a low density gas of hard spheres or disks, confined between two parallel plates separated a distance smaller than twice the diameter of the particles, is addressed starting from the Liouville equation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-06 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

Two dimensional flows on fixed smooth surfaces have been studied in the point of view of vorticity dynamics. Firstly, the related deformation theory including kinematics and kinetics is developed. Secondly, some primary relations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-19 Xi-Lin Xie

A closure for the effective relaxation time of the Boltzmann-BGK kinetic equation for fluid turbulence is presented, based on a double-averaging procedure over both kinetic and turbulent fluctuations. The resulting effective relaxation time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Sauro Succi

The dynamics of inelastic hard spheres is described in terms of the binary collision expansion, yielding the corresponding pseudo-Liouville equation and BBGKY hierarchy for the reduced distribution functions. Based on cluster expansion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. P. C. van Noije , M. H. Ernst

We review and complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of spatially homogeneous systems with long-range interactions taking collective effects into account. The evolution of the system as a whole is described by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-20 Pierre-Henri Chavanis
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