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Helicity is a fundamental conserved quantity in physical systems governed by vector fields whose evolution is described by volume-preserving transformations on a three-manifold. Notable examples include inviscid, incompressible fluid flows,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Oliver Edtmair , Sobhan Seyfaddini

Introduction: the Navier-Stokes equations are essential in fluid dynamics, describing the motion of fluids like liquids and gases. Solving these equations, especially in complex flows and high-Reynolds-number regimes, is a significant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-05 Sebastian Ali Sacasa-Cespedes

We develop a geometric formulation of fluid dynamics, valid on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds, that regards the momentum-flux and stress tensors as 1-form valued 2-forms, and their divergence as a covariant exterior derivative. We review…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-14 Andrew D. Gilbert , Jacques Vanneste

The generalized hydrodynamics (GHD) equation is the equivalent of the Euler equations of hydrodynamics for integrable models. Systems of hyperbolic equations such as the Euler equations usually develop shocks and are plagued by problems of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Friedrich Hübner , Benjamin Doyon

In this article, we combine V. Arnold's celebrated approach via the Euler-Arnold equation -- describing the geodesic flow on a Lie group equipped with a right-invariant metric \cite{Arnold66} -- with his formulation of the motion of a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Levin Maier

Master character of the multidimensional homogeneous Euler equation is discussed. It is shown that under restrictions to the lower dimensions certain subclasses of its solutions provide us with the solutions of various hydrodynamic type…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-05-26 B. G. Konopelchenko , G. Ortenzi

Arnold showed that the Euler equations of an ideal fluid describe geodesics on the Lie algebra of incompressible vector fields. We generalize this to fluids with dissipation and Gaussian random forcing. The dynamics is determined by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. G. Rajeev

Equations of fluid dynamics are formulated, which hold invariant under the action of the l-conformal Galilei group. They include the conventional continuity equation, a higher order material derivative analogue of the Euler equation, and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Anton Galajinsky

Generalized hydrodynamics (GHD) was proposed recently as a formulation of hydrodynamics for integrable systems, taking into account infinitely-many conservation laws. In this note we further develop the theory in various directions. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 Benjamin Doyon , Takato Yoshimura

In this mostly pedagogical tutorial article a brief introduction to modern geometrical treatment of fluid dynamics and electrodynamics is provided. The main technical tool is standard theory of differential forms. In fluid dynamics, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-03 Marian Fecko

In 1966, Arnold [1] showed that the Lagrangian flow of ideal incompressible fluids (described by Euler equations) coincide with the geodesic flow on the manifold of volume preserving diffeomorphisms of the fluid domain. Arnold's proof and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-10 Mohammad Farazmand , Mattia Serra

A new important relation between fluid mechanics and differential geometry is established. We study smooth steady solutions to the Euler equations with the additional property: the velocity vector is orthogonal to the gradient of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Vladimir Yu. Rovenski , Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov

These lecture notes in geometric mechanics are meant to convey insight through clear definitions and workable examples. The lecture format adopted here is intended to convey the immediacy of the taught course and to be useful as a basis for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Darryl D. Holm

In this paper we consider the multi-dimensional Quantum Hydrodynamics (QHD) system, by adopting an intrinsically hydrodynamic approach. The present work continues the analysis initiated in [6] where the one dimensional case was studied.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Paolo Antonelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Hao Zheng

Many models in mathematical physics are given as non-linear partial differential equation of hydrodynamic type; the incompressible Euler, KdV, and Camassa--Holm equations are well-studied examples.A beautiful approach to well-posedness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Martin Bauer , Klas Modin

Cauchy invariants are now viewed as a powerful tool for investigating the Lagrangian structure of three-dimensional (3D) ideal flow (Frisch & Zheligovsky, Commun. Math. Phys., vol. 326, 2014, pp. 499-505, Podvigina et al., J. Comput. Phys.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-01 Nicolas Besse , Uriel Frisch

The isometric embedding problem is a fundamental problem in differential geometry. A longstanding problem is considered in this paper to characterize intrinsic metrics on a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold which can be realized as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-25 Gui-Qiang Chen , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang

Stochastic geometric mechanics (SGM) is known for its potential utility in quantifying uncertainty in global climate modelling of the Earth's ocean and atmosphere while also preserving the fundamental advective transport properties of ideal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-30 Darryl D. Holm , Erwin Luesink

Issues relevant to the flow chirality and structure are focused, while the new theoretical results, including even a distinctive theory, are introduced. However, it is hope that the presentation, with a low starting point but a steep rise,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-31 Wennan Zou , Jian-Zhou Zhu , Xin Liu

During the past decade a number of attempts to formulate a continuum description of complex states of matter have been proposed to circumvent more cumbersome many-body and simulation methods. Typically these have been quantum systems (e.g.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 James Dufty , Kai Luo , Jeffrey Wrighton