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A multi-symplectic formulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is developed based on a Clebsch variable variational principle in which the Lagrangian consists of the kinetic minus the potential energy of the MHD fluid modified by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 G. M. Webb , J. F. McKenzie , G. P. Zank

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

Conservation laws in ideal gas dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) associated with fluid relabelling symmetries are derived using Noether's first and second theorems. Lie dragged invariants are discussed in terms of the MHD Casimirs. A…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 G. M. Webb , B. Dasgupta , J. F. McKenzie , Q. Hu , G. P. Zank

A version of Noether's second theorem using Lagrange multipliers is used to investigate fluid relabelling symmetries conservation laws in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We obtain a new generalized potential vorticity type conservation equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 G. M. Webb , R. L. Mace

The Lagrangian, multi-dimensional, ideal, compressible gasdynamic equations are written in a multi-symplectic form, in which the Lagrangian fluid labels, $m^i$ (the Lagrangian mass coordinates) and time $t$ are the independent variables,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 G. M. Webb , S. C. Anco

We consider the application of finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) methods to a class of canonical Hamiltonian PDE systems involving differential forms. Solutions to these systems satisfy a local multisymplectic conservation law, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Ari Stern , Enrico Zampa

Using a manifestly invariant Lagrangian density based on Clebsch fields and suitable for geophysical fluid dynamics, the conservation of mass, entropy, momentum and energy, and the associated symmetries are investigated. In contrast, it is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-10 Martin Charron , Ayrton Zadra

In the framework of the variational principle there are introduced canonical variables describing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows of general type without any restrictions for invariants of the motion. It is shown that the velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Kats

Two types of Eulerian action principles for relativistic extended magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) are formulated. With the first, the action is extremized under the constraints of density, entropy, and Lagrangian label conservation, which leads…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Yohei Kawazura , George Miloshevich , Philip J. Morrison

In this work we extend our previously developed formalism of Newtonian multi-fluid hydrodynamics to allow for coupling between the fluids and the electromagnetic and gravitational field. This is achieved within the convective variational…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Reinhard Prix

We construct multisymplectic formulations of fluid dynamics using the inverse of the Lagrangian path map. This inverse map -- the ``back-to-labels'' map -- gives the initial Lagrangian label of the fluid particle that currently occupies…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 C. J. Cotter , D. D. Holm , P. E. Hydon

In this paper we discuss conservation laws in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and gas dynamics associated with advected invariants. The invariants in some cases, can be related to fluid relabelling symmetries associated with the Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Gary M. Webb , Brahmananda Dasgupta , James F McKenzie , Qiang Hu , Gary P. Zank

In this paper, we prove necessary and sufficient conditions for a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method to satisfy a multisymplectic conservation law, when applied to a canonical Hamiltonian system of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Robert I. McLachlan , Ari Stern

We propose the generally covariant action for the theory of a self-coupled complex scalar field and electromagnetism which by virtue of constraints is equivalent, in the regime of long wavelengths, to perfect magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacob D. Bekenstein , Gerold Betschart

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

Many PDEs (Burgers' equation, KdV, Camassa-Holm, Euler's fluid equations,...) can be formulated as infinite-dimensional Lie-Poisson systems. These are Hamiltonian systems on manifolds equipped with Poisson brackets. The Poisson structure is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Robert I McLachlan , Christian Offen , Benjamin K Tapley

Introducing a Clebsch-like parameterization, we have formulated a canonical Hamiltonian system on a symplectic leaf of reduced magnetohydrodynamics. An interesting structure of the equations is in that the Lorentz-force, which is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yuta Kaneko , Zensho Yoshida

We show that an infinite number of non-unitary minimal models may describe two dimensional turbulent magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), both in the presence and absence of the Alf'ven effect. We argue that the existence of a critical dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. R. Rahimitabar , S. Rouhani

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

We demonstrate, both at the Newtonian and (general) relativistic levels, the existence of a generalization of Kelvin's circulation theorem (for pure fluids) which is applicable to perfect magnetohydrodynamics. The argument is based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jacob D. Bekenstein , Asaf Oron
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