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We examine the linear behavior of three-dimensional Lagrangian displacements in a stratified, shearing background. The isentropic and iso-rotation surfaces of the equilibrium flow are assumed to be axisymmetric, but otherwise fully…

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In this paper, we construct stationary classical solutions of the shallow water equation with vanishing Froude number $Fr$ in the so-called lake model. To this end we need to study solutions to the following semilinear elliptic problem…

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Semi-Lagrangian schemes have proven to be very efficient to model advection problems. However most semi-Lagrangian schemes are not conservative. Here, a systematic method is introduced in order to enforce the conservative property on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-19 Alexandre Cameron , Emmanuel Dormy

Conservation and consistency are fundamental properties of discretizations of systems of hyperbolic conservation laws. Here, these concepts are extended to the realm of iterative methods by formally defining locally conservative and flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Viktor Linders , Philipp Birken

Shallow flow models are used for a large number of applications including weather forecasting, open channel hydraulics and simulation-based natural hazard assessment. In these applications the shallowness of the process motivates…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Julia Kowalski , Manuel Torrilhon

Lax-Wendroff flux reconstruction (LWFR) schemes have high order of accuracy in both space and time despite having a single internal time step. Here, we design a Jacobian-free LWFR type scheme to solve the special relativistic hydrodynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Sujoy Basak , Arpit Babbar , Harish Kumar , Praveen Chandrashekar

The paper is concerned with a scalar conservation law with discontinuous gradient-dependent flux. Namely, the flux is described by two different functions $f(u)$ or $g(u)$, when the gradient $u_x$ of the solution is positive or negative,…

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In the realm of relativistic astrophysics, the ideal equation of state with a constant adiabatic index provides a poor approximation due to its inconsistency with relativistic kinetic theory. However, it is a common practice to use it for…

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The anelastic and pseudo-incompressible equations are two well-known soundproof approximations of compressible flows useful for both theoretical and numerical analysis in meteorology, atmospheric science, and ocean studies. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Werner Bauer , François Gay-Balmaz

The log-homotopy particle flow filter resolves the Bayesian update by transporting particles along a continuous trajectory in pseudo-time. However, the governing partial differential equation for the flow velocity is fundamentally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Olivér Törő , Domonkos Csuzdi , Tamás Bécsi

We classify zeroth-order conservation laws of systems from the class of two-dimensional shallow water equations with variable bottom topography using an optimized version of the method of furcate splitting. The classification is carried out…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Alexander Bihlo , Roman O. Popovych

By dispersive models of fluid mechanics we are referring to the Euler-Lagrange equations for the constrained Hamilton action functional where the internal energy depends on high order derivatives of unknowns. The mass conservation law is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-01 S. L. Gavrilyuk , H. Gouin

A thermodynamic analysis of weakly nonlocal non-relativistic fluids is presented under the assumption that an additional scalar field also contributes to the dynamics. The most general evolution of this field and the constitutive relations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Mátyás Szücs , Péter Ván

We present a consistent high-order staggered Lagrangian hydrodynamics framework designed to reconcile an underlying disparity in existing curvilinear formulations: the mismatch between quadrature-based "strong" mass conservation and the…

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Accurate and computationally accessible models of liquid film flows allow for optimizing coating processes such as hot-dip galvanization and vertical slot-die coating. This paper extends the classic three-dimensional integral boundary layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-08 Tsvetelina Ivanova , Fabio Pino , Benoit Scheid , Miguel A. Mendez

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) were introduced by previous authors both in Lagrangian and Eulerian form. In this paper we introduce simpler Eulerian variational principles from which all the relevant equations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Asher Yahalom

Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. Variational integrators are an important class of geometric integrators. The general idea…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Colombo , Manuela Gamonal Fernández , David Martín de Diego

Existing approaches to solving the Vlasov equation treat the system as a partial differential equation on a phase space grid, and track in either an Eulerian, Lagrangian, or semi-Lagrangian picture. We present an alternative approach, which…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Jonathan P. Edelen , Stephen D. Webb

Ideal systems of equations such as Euler and MHD may develop singular structures like shocks, vortex/current sheets. Among these, vortical singularities arise due to vortex stretching which can lead to unbounded growth of enstrophy.…

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