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A two-fluid model is derived from the plasma kinetic equations using the moment model reduction method. The moment method we adopt was recently developed with a globally hyperbolic regularization where the moment model attained is locally…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Ruo Li , Yixiao Lu , Yanli Wang

We present a novel extension of Hamiltonian mechanics to nonconservative systems built upon the Schwinger-Keldysh-Galley double-variable action principle. Departing from Galley's initial-value action, we clarify important subtleties…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Christopher Aykroyd , Adrien Bourgoin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte

The noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is used to construct variational principles for symmetric equilibrium configurations of magnetized plasma including flow. In particular, helical symmetry is considered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Tommaso Andreussi , Philip J. Morrison , Francesco Pegoraro

This paper concerns the development and application of the multisymplectic Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for nonlinear partial differential equations. In this theory, solutions of a PDE are sections of a fiber bundle $Y$ over a base…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Jerrold E. Marsden , Steve Shkoller

We present a formalism for Newtonian multi-fluid hydrodynamics derived from an unconstrained variational principle. This approach provides a natural way of obtaining the general equations of motion for a wide range of hydrodynamic systems…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Reinhard Prix

We apply Poisson reduction techniques to describe asymptotic fully nonlinear models of fluid wave motion in the Hamiltonian setting. We start by considering Zakharov and Benjamin Hamiltonian settings for a stably stratified $2D$ Euler…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Gregorio Falqui , Eleonora Sforza

A physically-based method to derive well-posed instances of the two-fluid transport equations for two-phase flow, from the Hamilton principle, is presented. The state of the two-fluid flow is represented by the superficial velocity and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Alejandro Clausse , Martin Lopez de Bertodano

The dynamics of a dissipationless incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) medium is formulated using Lagrangian mechanics on a semidirect product of two volume preserving diffeomorphism groups. In the case of $\mathbb{T}^3$ or $E^3$,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Keisuke Araki

Hamilton's principle is extended to have compatible initial conditions to the strong form. To use a number of computational and theoretical benefits for dynamical systems, the mixed variational formulation is preferred in the systems other…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 Jinkyu Kim

Hydrodynamic equations for a one-component plasma are derived as a generalization of the Euler equations to include the effects of the long-range Coulomb interaction. By using a variational principle, these equations self-consistently unify…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Daniels Krimans , Seth Putterman

In this paper, we derive reduced models for the motion of gas bubbles in an ambient inviscid liquid, using Hamilton's least action principle. We first explain how to recover from this principle the classical sharp interface model, in which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Cosmin Burtea , David Gérard-Varet

We consider a relativistic extended object described by a reparametrization invariant local action that depends on the extrinsic curvature of the worldvolume swept out by the object as it evolves. We provide a Hamiltonian formulation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Riccardo Capovilla , Jemal Guven , Efrain Rojas

In this text, the filtering unitary group method developed, among others, by S. Schochet is adapted to prove the existence and well-posedness of modulation equations describing the incompressible limit of the Euler-Maxwell Two-Fluid (EMTF)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Nicolas Besse , Christophe Cheverry

The goal of this contribution is to introduce the Hamiltonian formalism of theoretical mechanics for analysing motion in generic linear and non-linear dynamical systems, including particle accelerators. This framework allows the derivation…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Yannis Papaphilippou

The Hamiltonian action of a Lie group on a symplectic manifold induces a momentum map generalizing Noether's conserved quantity occurring in the case of a symmetry group. Then, when a Hamiltonian function can be written in terms of this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-19 Michael S. Foskett , Darryl D. Holm , Cesare Tronci

Extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) is a fluid plasma model generalizing ideal MHD by taking into account the impact of Hall drift effects and the influence of electron inertial effects. XMHD has a Hamiltonian structure which has received…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Christophe Cheverry , Nicolas Besse

There is a well developed and useful theory of Hamiltonian reduction for semidirect products, which applies to examples such as the heavy top, compressible fluids and MHD, which are governed by Lie-Poisson type equations. In this paper we…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Cendra , D. D. Holm , J. E. Marsden , T. S. Ratiu

The theory of integrable systems of Hamiltonian PDEs and their near-integrable deformations is used to study evolution equations resulting from vertical-averages of the Euler system for two-layer stratified flows in an infinite 2D channel.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 R. Camassa , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi

The conservation of the recently formulated relativistic canonical helicity [Yoshida Z, Kawazura Y, and Yokoyama T 2014 J. Math. Phys. 55 043101] is derived from Noether's theorem by constructing an action principle on the relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Yohei Kawazura , Zensho Yoshida , Yasuhide Fukumoto

The Lagrangian and Hamiltonian structures for an ideal gauge-charged fluid are determined. Using a Kaluza-Klein point of view, the equations of motion are obtained by Lagrangian and Poisson reductions associated to the automorphism group of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-26 François Gay-Balmaz , Tudor S. Ratiu