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Stochastic field theories are often constructed phenomenologically, without a systematic assessment of thermodynamic consistency or local detailed balance. This may hinder a physical description of irreversibility at the field-theoretic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Héctor Vaquero del Pino , François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura , Lock Yue Chew

A variational principle is derived for two-dimensional incompressible rotational fluid flow with a free surface in a moving vessel when both the vessel and fluid motion are to be determined. The fluid is represented by a stream function and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 H. Alemi Ardakani , T. J. Bridges , F. Gay-Balmaz , Y. Huang , C. Tronci

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

The stability conditions of a relativistic hydrodynamic theory can be derived directly from the requirement that the entropy should be maximised in equilibrium. Here we use a simple geometrical argument to prove that, if the hydrodynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Lorenzo Gavassino , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell

We develop a formulation of global thermodynamics for equilibrium systems under the influence of gravity. The free energy for simple fluids is extended to include a dependence on $(T, V, N, mgL)$, where $L$ represents the vertical system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-26 Naoko Nakagawa , Shin-ichi Sasa , Takamichi Hirao , Tsuyoshi Shiina , Kyosuke Tachi , Akira Yoshida

This work is devoted to the study of dissipative fluid systems, through the lens of a geometric variational formulation. Building upon previous works extending Hamilton's principle to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the present method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Bastien Manach-Pérennou , François Gay-Balmaz

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics 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 2016-05-09 Asher Yahalom

Motivated by recent developments in Hamiltonian variational principles, Hamiltonian variational integrators, and their applications such as to optimization and control, we present a new Type II variational approach for Hamiltonian systems,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Brian K. Tran , Melvin Leok

Given an energy-dissipating port-Hamiltonian system, we characterise the exponential decay of the energy via the model ingredients under mild conditions on the Hamiltonian density $\mathcal{H}$. In passing, we obtain generalisations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Sascha Trostorff , Marcus Waurick

This work assembles some basic theoretical elements on thermal equilibrium, stability conditions, and fluctuation theory in self-gravitating systems illustrated with a few examples. Thermodynamics deals with states that have settled down…

Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Joseph Katz

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics were introduced by previous authors both in Lagrangian and Eulerian form. In a previous work Yahalom & Lynden-Bell introduced a simpler Eulerian variational principles from which all the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Asher Yahalom

Variational principles play a fundamental role in deriving evolution equations of physics. They are working well in case of nondissipative evolution but for dissipative systems they are not unique, not predictive and not constructive. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-02 Péter Ván , Róbert Kovács

We describe the Hamiltonian structures, including the Poisson brackets and Hamiltonians, for free boundary problems for incompressible fluid flows with vorticity. The Hamiltonian structure is used to obtain variational principles for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-04 Boris Kolev , David H. Sattinger

The entropy principle shows that, for self-gravitating perfect fluid, the Einstein field equations can be derived from the extrema of the total entropy, and the thermodynamical stability criterion are equivalent to the dynamical stability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-27 Wei Yang , Xiongjun Fang , Jiliang Jing

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) were in\-troduced 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 2021-09-10 Asher Yahalom

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics 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 barotropic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Asher Yahalom , Donald Lynden-Bell

The 4-dimensionally covariant approach to multiconstituent Newtonian fluid dynamics presented in the preceding article of this series is developed by construction of the relevant 4-dimensional stress energy tensor whose conservation in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Brandon Carter , Nicolas Chamel

In this work, a second order smoothed particle hydrodynamics is derived for the study of relativistic heavy ion collisions. The hydrodynamical equation of motion is formulated in terms of the variational principle. In order to describe the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Philipe Mota , Weixian Chen , Wei-Liang Qian

The variational principle of barotropic Eulerian fluid dynamics is known to be quite cumbersome containing as much as eleven independent functions. This is much more than the the four functions (density and velocity) appearing in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asher Yahalom

We have constructed a nonextensive thermodynamic formalism consisting of two sets of parallel Legendre transformation structures in previous papers. One is the physical set and the other is the Lagrange set. In this paper we study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Zheng Yahui , Du Jiulin , Liang Faku