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A fluid flow in a multiply connected domain generated by an arbitrary number of point vortices is considered. A stream function for this flow is constructed as a limit of a certain functional sequence using the method of images. The…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Anna Zemlyanova , Ian Manly , Demond Handley

This article is devoted to the generalization of results obtained in 2002 by Jabin, Otto and Perthame. In their article they proved that planar vector fields taking value into the unit sphere of the euclidean norm and satisfying a given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Pierre Bochard , Paul Pegon

We present a neural network approach to compute stream functions, which are scalar functions with gradients orthogonal to a given vector field. As a result, isosurfaces of the stream function extract stream surfaces, which can be visualized…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Skylar Wolfgang Wurster , Hanqi Guo , Tom Peterka , Han-Wei Shen

Starting from the Liouville equation, we derive the exact hierarchy of equations satisfied by the reduced distribution functions of the single species point vortex gas in two dimensions. Considering an expansion of the solution in powers of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. H. Chavanis

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

Reference frame optimization is a generic framework to calculate a spatially-varying observer field that views an unsteady fluid flow in a reference frame that is as-steady-as-possible. In this paper, we show that the optimized vector field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-03 Holger Theisel , Markus Hadwiger , Peter Rautek , Thomas Theußl , Tobias Günther

This paper presents a streamfunction-vorticity formulation for the Navier--Stokes and Euler equations on general surfaces. Notably, this includes non-simply connected surfaces, on which the harmonic components of the velocity field play a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Tim Brüers , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Max Wardetzky

We derive an exact equation of motion for a non-relativistic vortex in two- and three-dimensional models with a complex field. The velocity is given in terms of gradients of the complex field at the vortex position. We discuss the problem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Elsebeth Schroder , Ola Tornkvist

The main purpose of this work is to provide a Hilbertian functional framework for the analysis of the planar Navier-Stokes (NS) equations either in vorticity or in stream function formulation. The fluid is assumed to occupy a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Julien Lequeurre , Alexandre Munnier

The vortex method is a common numerical and theoretical approach used to implement the motion of an ideal flow, in which the vorticity is approximated by a sum of point vortices, so that the Euler equations read as a system of ordinary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Diogo Arsénio , Emmanuel Dormy , Christophe Lacave

Distance functions are crucial in robotics for representing spatial relationships between a robot and its environment. They provide an implicit, continuous, and differentiable representation that integrates seamlessly with control,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yiming Li , Jiacheng Qiu , Sylvain Calinon

The vortex method is a common numerical and theoretical approach used to implement the motion of an ideal flow, in which the vorticity is approximated by a sum of point vortices, so that the Euler equations read as a system of ordinary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Diogo Arsénio , Emmanuel Dormy , Christophe Lacave

We develop a kinetic theory for point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics. Using standard projection operator technics, we derive a Fokker-Planck equation describing the relaxation of a ``test'' vortex in a bath of ``field'' vortices…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. H. Chavanis

The `lake equation' on a planar domain D with bathymetry b(x,y) is given by $ \partial_t u + (u \cdot {\rm grad}) u= -{\rm grad}\, p \,, \,\,{\rm div} (b u) = 0 \,,\, \text{with}\,\, u \parallel \partial D.$ % \, \,\, \,\,\, \text{),}$$ We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Jair Koiller

A modified quantum kinetic equation which takes account of the noninertial features of rotating frame is proposed. The vector and axial-vector field components of the Wigner function for chiral fluids are worked out in a semiclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-24 Omer F. Dayi , Eda Kilincarslan

We present a new way of quantum kinetic equation derivation. This method appears as a natural generalization of the many-particle quantum hydrodynamic method. Kinetic equations are derived for different system of particles. First of all we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Pavel A. Andreev

A class of harmonic solutions to the steady Euler equations for incompressible fluids is presented in two dimensions in circular, elliptic and bipolar coordinates. Since the velocity field is solenoidal in this case, it can be written as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-06 Pablo Luis Rendón , Eugenio Ley-Koo

We consider a boundary value problem for the system of equations describing the stationary motion of a viscous nonhomogeneous asymmetric fluid in a bounded planar domain having a $C^2$ boundary. We use a stream-function formulation after…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Fábio Vitoriano Silva

We develop the kinetic theory of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics and illustrate the main results of the theory with numerical simulations. We first consider the evolution of the system "as a whole" and show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. H. Chavanis , M. Lemou

We develop a kinetic theory of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics taking collective effects into account. We first recall the approach of Dubin & O'Neil [Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1286 (1988)] that leads to a Lenard-Balescu-type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pierre-Henri Chavanis
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