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Accurate prediction of the hydrodynamic forces on particles is central to the fidelity of Euler-Lagrange (EL) simulations of particle-laden flows. Traditional EL methods typically rely on determining the hydrodynamic forces at the positions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 Berend van Wachem , Hani Elmestikawy , Akshay Chandran , Max Hausmann

Variational principles play a fundamental role in deriving evolution equations of physics. They are working well in case of nondissipative evolution but for dissipative systems they are not unique, not predictive and not constructive. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-02 Péter Ván , Róbert Kovács

We present a formalism for Newtonian multi-fluid hydrodynamics derived from an unconstrained variational principle. This approach provides a natural way of obtaining the general equations of motion for a wide range of hydrodynamic systems…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Reinhard Prix

The gauge invariant electromagnetic Wigner equation is taken as the basis for a fluid-like system describing quantum plasmas, derived from the moments of the gauge invariant Wigner function. The use of the standard, gauge dependent Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Haas , J. Zamanian , M. Marklund , G. Brodin

Extracting governing physical laws from computational or experimental data is crucial across various fields such as fluid dynamics and plasma physics. Many of those physical laws are dissipative due to fluid viscosity or plasma collisions.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yubin Lu , Xiaofan Li , Chun Liu , Qi Tang , Yiwei Wang

Extended irreversible thermodynamics is a theory that expands the classical framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics by going beyond the local-equilibrium assumption. A notable example of this is the Maxwell-Cattaneo heat flux model,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 François Gay-Balmaz

We develop a purely hydrodynamic formalism to describe collisional, anisotropic instabilities in a relativistic plasma, that are usually described with kinetic theory tools. Our main motivation is the fact that coarse-grained models of high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Esteban Calzetta , Alejandra Kandus

We consider the hydrodynamic scaling behavior of the mass density with respect to a general class of mass conservative interacting particle systems on ${\mathbb Z}^n$, where the jump rates are asymmetric and long-range of order…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Sunder Sethuraman , Doron Shahar

Shielding effects in non-degenerate and degenerate plasmas are compared. A detailed derivation of the Wigner-Poisson system is provided for electrostatic quantum plasmas where relativistic, spin and collisional effects are not essential.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 Fernando Haas

In the variational principle leading to the Euler equation for a perfect fluid, we can use the method of undetermined multiplier for holonomic constraints representing mass conservation and adiabatic condition. For a dissipative fluid, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-03 Hiroki Fukagawa , Youhei Fujitani

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

Starting from first principles quantum kinetic theory for ideal plasmas with exchange effects, the quantum hydrodynamic equations are derived taking moments of the corresponding exchange-Vlasov equation. The case of an electron-ion plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Fernando Haas

We study the non-equilibrium steady-states of a one-dimensional ($1D1V$) fluid in a finite space region of length $L$. Particles interact among themselves by multi-particle collisions and are in contact with two thermal-wall heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-08 Stefano Lepri , Guido Ciraolo , Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Jamie Gunn , Roberto Livi

Variational integrators are a special kind of geometric discretisation methods applicable to any system of differential equations that obeys a Lagrangian formulation. In this thesis, variational integrators are developed for several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Michael Kraus

A class of variational schemes for the hydrodynamic-electrodynamic model of lossless free-electron gas in a quasineutral background is developed for high-quality simulations of surface plasmon polaritons. The Lagrangian density of lossless…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Qiang Chen , Lifei Geng , Xiang Chen , Xiaojun Hao , Chuanchuan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang

We present a phenomenological Lagrangian and Poisson brackets for obtaining nondissipative hydrodynamic theory of supersolids. A Lagrangian is constructed on the basis of unification of the principles of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-17 A. S. Peletminskii

Five-moment approximation in hydrodynamics includes not only continuity equation and momentum balance equation, but also energy equation. Set of hydrodynamic equations is presented for system of non-relativistic quantum particles with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-08-12 A. Yu. Ivanov , L. S. Kuz'menkov

We investigate an explicit example of how spatial decoherence can lead to hydrodynamic behavior in the late-time, long-wavelength regime of open quantum systems. We focus on the case of a single non-relativistic quantum particle linearly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-17 Zhi-Li Zhou , Mauricio Hippert , Nicki Mullins , Jorge Noronha

At the heart of any method for computational fluid dynamics lies the question of how the simulated fluid should be discretized. Traditionally, a fixed Eulerian mesh is often employed for this purpose, which in modern schemes may also be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-13 Volker Springel

We derive relativistic viscous hydrodynamic equations invoking the generalized second law of thermodynamics for two different forms of the non-equilibrium single-particle distribution function. We find that the relaxation times in these two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-17 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Amaresh Jaiswal , Subrata Pal , V. Sreekanth