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Kinetic approaches, i.e., methods based on the lattice Boltzmann equations, have long been recognized as an appealing alternative for solving incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in computational fluid dynamics. However, such approaches…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Wei Li , Kai Bai , Xiaopei Liu

We derive an analytic formula for the hydrodynamic Green function and the Robin function on every orientable surface admitting a hydrodynamic Killing vector field. Closed-form expressions are provided for all fourteen canonical Riemann…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Yuuki Shimizu

In this study we revisit the problem of computing steady Navier-Stokes flows in two-dimensional unbounded domains. Precise quantitative characterization of such flows in the high-Reynolds number limit remains an open problem of theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-26 Jonathan Gustafsson , Bartosz Protas

The motion of noncircular two-dimensional vortices is shown to depend on a form of coupling between vortex ellipticity and the gradient of fluid density. The approach is based on the perspective that an elliptic vortex can be described as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Jasmine M. Andersen , Andrew A. Voitiv , Mark E. Siemens , Mark T. Lusk

Given a geometric structure on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ with $n$ even (e.g. Euclidean, symplectic, Minkowski, pseudo-Euclidean), we analyze the set of points inside the domain of definition of an arbitrary given $\mathcal{C}^1$ vector field, where…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Razvan M. Tudoran

We consider the gradient flow of a Ginzburg-Landau functional of the type \[ F_\varepsilon^{\mathrm{extr}}(u):=\frac{1}{2}\int_M \left|D u\right|_g^2 + \left|\mathscr{S} u\right|^2_g…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Giacomo Canevari , Antonio Segatti

In this paper, we investigate steady Euler flows in a two-dimensional bounded domain. By an adaption of the vorticity method, we prove that for any nonconstant harmonic function $q$, which corresponds to a nontrivial irrotational flow,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Daomin Cao , Guodong Wang , Zhan Weicheng

Vortices (flows with closed elliptic streamlines) are exact nonlinear solutions to the compressible Euler equation. In this contribution, we use differential geometry to derive the transformations between Cartesian and elliptic coordinates,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-10 Wladimir Lyra

This paper shows that the topological structures of particle orbits generated by a generic class of vector fields on spherical surfaces, called {\it the flow of finite type}, are in one-to-one correspondence with discrete structures such as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Takashi Sakajo , Tomoo Yokoyama

We study the dynamics of vortices formed in a superfluid film adsorbed on the curved two-dimensional surface of a cone. To this aim, we observe that a cone can be unrolled to a sector on a plane with periodic boundary conditions on the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-11 Pietro Massignan , Alexander L. Fetter

A four-parameter kinematic model for the position of a fluid parcel in a time-varying ellipse is introduced. For any ellipse advected by an arbitrary linear two-dimensional flow, the rates of change of the ellipse parameters are uniquely…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 J. M. Lilly

When simulating three-dimensional flows interacting with deformable and elastic obstacles, current methods often encounter complexities in the governing equations and challenges in numerical implementation. In this work, we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Andreu F. Gallen , Joan Muñoz Biosca , Mario Castro , Aurora Hernández-Machado

This paper investigates an incompressible steady free boundary problem of Euler equations with helical symmetry in $3$ dimensions and with nontrivial vorticity. The velocity field of the fluid arises from the spiral of its velocity within a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Lili Du , Feng Ji

The point vortex dynamics in background fields on surfaces is justified as an Euler-Arnold flow in the sense of de Rham currents. We formulate a current-valued solution of the Euler-Arnold equation with a regular-singular decomposition. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Yuuki Shimizu

The two-dimensional ideal (Euler) fluids can be described by the classical fields of streamfunction, velocity and vorticity and, in an equivalent manner, by a model of discrete point-like vortices interacting in plane by a self-generated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-05 Florin Spineanu , Madalina Vlad

We present a novel diffusion-based framework for synthesizing 2D vector fields from sparse, coherent inputs (i.e., streamlines) while maintaining physical plausibility. Our method employs a conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nguyen K. Phan , Ricardo Morales , Sebastian D. Espriella , Guoning Chen

Approximate streamsurfaces of a 3D velocity field have recently been constructed as isosurfaces of the closest first integral of the velocity field. Such approximate streamsurfaces enable effective and efficient visualization of vortical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-14 Mingwu Li , Bálint Kaszás , George Haller

Given any possibly unbounded, locally finite link, we show that there exists a smooth diffeomorphism transforming this link into a set of stream (or vortex) lines of a vector field that solves the steady incompressible Euler equation in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Alberto Enciso , Daniel Peralta-Salas

Instantaneous features of three-dimensional velocity fields are most directly visualized via streamsurfaces. It is generally unclear, however, which streamsurfaces one should pick for this purpose, given that infinitely many such surfaces…

In the classical one-dimensional solution of fluid dynamics equations all unknown functions depend only on time t and Cartesian coordinate x. Although fluid spreads in all directions (velocity vector has three components) the whole picture…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-08-05 Sergey V. Golovin