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A new Hamiltonian formulation for the fully nonlinear water-wave problem over variable bathymetry is derived, using an exact, vertical series expansion of the velocity potential, in conjunction with Luke's variational principle. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-14 Christos Papoutsellis , Gerassimos Athanassoulis

A Hamiltonian formulation of generic many-particle systems with space-dependent balanced loss and gain coefficients is presented. It is shown that the balancing of loss and gain necessarily occurs in a pair-wise fashion. Further, using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Debdeep Sinha , Pijush K. Ghosh

Based on the Newton's second law and the Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic fields, we establish a new 3D incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics(MHD) equations for the motion of plasma under the standard Coulomb gauge. By using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Ruikuan Liu , Jiayan Yang

We consider a class of finite-dimensional dynamical systems whose equations of motion are derived from a non-local-in-time action principle. The action functional has a zeroth order piece derived from a local Hamiltonian and a perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Francisco M. Blanco

The equations of Lagrangian, ideal, one-dimensional (1D), compressible gas dynamics are written in a multi-symplectic form using the Lagrangian mass coordinate $m$ and time $t$ as independent variables, and in which the Eulerian position of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. M. Webb

Three-dimensional two-layer incompressible Euler fluids are studied from a Hamiltonian perspective. A natural Hamiltonian structure for the effective 2D model described by the interface-value of the field variables is obtained by means of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 R. Camassa , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi , M. Pedroni , E. Sforza

We present a Hamiltonian derivation of a class of reduced plasma two-dimensional fluid models, an example being the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima equation. These models are obtained from the same parent Hamiltonian model, which consists of the ion…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-20 Cristel Chandre , Emanuele Tassi , Philip J. Morrison

We provide Vasiliev's fully nonlinear equations of motion for bosonic gauge fields in four spacetime dimensions with an action principle. We first extend Vasiliev's original system with differential forms in degrees higher than one. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicolas Boulanger , Per Sundell

It is shown that the action for Hamiltonian equations of motion can be brought into invariant symplectic form. In other words, it can be formulated directly in terms of the symplectic structure $\omega$ without any need to choose some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Alexey V. Golovnev , Alexander S. Ushakov

The formal stability analysis of Eulerian extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) equilibria is considered within the noncanonical Hamiltonian framework by means of the energy-Casimir variational principle and the dynamically accessible…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , P. J. Morrison

An explicit high-order noncanonical symplectic algorithm for ideal two-fluid systems is developed. The fluid is discretized as particles in the Lagrangian description, while the electromagnetic fields and internal energy are treated as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin , Philip J. Morrison , Jian Liu , Zhi Yu , Ruili Zhang , Yang He

A covariant action principle for ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in terms of natural Eulerian field variables is given. This is done by generalizing the covariant Poisson bracket theory of Marsden et al., which uses a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Eric D'Avignon , Philip Morrison , Francesco Pegoraro

Euler-Lagrange variational principle is used to obtain analytical and numerical flow relations in cylindrical tubes. The method is based on minimizing the total stress in the flow duct using the fluid constitutive relation between stress…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-12 Taha Sochi

We develop a Lie group geometric framework for the motion of fluids with permeable boundaries that extends Arnold's geometric description of fluid in closed domains. Our setting is based on the classical Hamilton principle applied to fluid…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Christopher Eldred , François Gay-Balmaz , Meng Wu

In previous papers, we have presented hyperbolic governing equations and jump conditions for barotropic fluid mixtures. Now we extend our results to the most general case of two-fluid conservative mixtures taking into account the entropies…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-02-12 Henri Gouin , Sergey Gavrilyuk

A comprehensive study of a reduced version of Lust's equations, the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) model obtained from the two-fluid theory for electrons and ions with the enforcement of quasineutrality, is given. Starting from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Grasso , E. Tassi , H. M. Abdelhamid , P. J. Morrison

We derive a Noether current for the Eulerian variational principle of ideal non-barotropic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It was shown previously that ideal non-barotropic MHD is mathematically equivalent to a five function field theory with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-03 Asher Yahalom , Hong Qin

Equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) play an important role in the studies of turbulence, astrophysics, and plasma physics. These equations possess remarkable geometric structures and symmetries. Indeed, they admit a geodesic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Michael Roop

The fundamental "two-fluid" model for describing plasma dynamics is given by the Euler-Maxwell system, in which compressible ion and electron fluids interact with their own self-consistent electromagnetic field. We prove global stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Yan Guo , Alexandru D. Ionescu , Benoit Pausader

We develop a unified geometric framework for dissipative mechanical systems based on uniform $q$-contact manifolds, which provide an extended phase space equipped with multiple contact $1$-forms. Within this setting, we construct both…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Melvin Leok , Cristina Sardón , Xuefeng Zhao