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A novel canonical Hamiltonian formalism is developed for long internal waves in a rotating environment. This includes the effects of background vorticity and shear on the waves. By restricting consideration to flows in hydrostatic balance,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuri V. Lvov , Esteban G. Tabak

A general formalism for obtaining the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian for a one dimensional dissipative system is developed. The formalism is illustrated by applying it to the case of a relativistic particle with linear dissipation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gonzalez

By viewing a velocity gradient in a fluid as an internal disturbance and treating it as a constraint on the wave function of a system, a linear evolution equation for the wave function is obtained from the Lagrange multiplier method. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-13 M. -L. Zhang , D. A. Drabold

Geophysical flows are typically composed of wave and mean motions with a wide range of overlapping temporal scales, making separation between the two types of motion in wave-resolving numerical simulations challenging. Lagrangian filtering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-15 Lois E. Baker , Hossein A. Kafiabad , Cai Maitland-Davies , Jacques Vanneste

Conventional descriptions of transverse waves in an elastic solid are limited by an assumption of infinitesimally small gradients of rotation. By assuming a linear response to variations in orientation, we derive an exact description of a…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-08 R. A. Close

This work is devoted to a systematic exposition of the dynamics of a rigid body, considered as a system with kinematic constraints. Having accepted the variational problem in accordance with this, we no longer need any additional postulates…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Alexei A. Deriglazov

When expressed in Lagrangian variables, the equations of motion for compressible (barotropic) fluids have the structure of a classical Hamiltonian system in which the potential energy is given by the internal energy of the fluid. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Thomas Gallouët , Quentin Merigot , Andrea Natale

The Lagrangian average (LA) of the ideal fluid equations preserves their transport structure. This transport structure is responsible for the Kelvin circulation theorem of the LA flow and, hence, for its convection of potential vorticity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Darryl D. Holm

The variational principle for the special and general relativistic hydrodynamics are discussed in view of its application to obtain approximate solutions to these problems. We show that effective Lagrangians can be obtained for suitable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-15 Hans-Thomas Elze , Yogiro Hama , Takeshi Kodama , Martín Makler , Johann Rafelski

On the basis of the gauge principle of field theory, a new variational formulation is presented for flows of an ideal fluid. The fluid is defined thermodynamically by mass density and entropy density, and its flow fields are characterized…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tsutomu Kambe

We derive the exact gravitational wave solutions in a general class of quadratic Poincar\'e gauge gravity models. The Lagrangian includes all possible linear and quadratic invariants constructed from the torsion and the curvature, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-18 Yuri N. Obukhov

The Lagrangian average (LA) of the ideal fluid equations preserves their fundamental transport structure. This transport structure is responsible for the Kelvin circulation theorem of the LA flow and, hence, for its potential vorticity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Darryl D. Holm

It is well known that Lagrangian dynamical systems naturally arise in describing wave front dynamics in the limit of short waves (which is called pseudoclassical limit or limit of geometrical optics). Wave fronts are the surfaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

For propagation of surface shallow-water waves on irrotational flows, we derive a new two-component system. The system is obtained by a variational approach in the Lagrangian formalism. The system has a non-canonical Hamiltonian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

We formulate equations of motion and conservation laws for a quantum many-body system in a co-moving Lagrangian reference frame. It is shown that generalized inertia forces in the co-moving frame are described by Green's deformation tensor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Tokatly

New aspects of turbulence are uncovered if one considers flow motion from the perspective of a fluid particle (known as the Lagrangian approach) rather than in terms of a velocity field (the Eulerian viewpoint). Using a new experimental…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Mordant , J. Delour , E. Leveque , A. Arneodo , J. -F. Pinton

A method for extracting time-varying oscillatory motions from time series records is applied to Lagrangian trajectories from a numerical model of eddies generated by an unstable equivalent barotropic jet on a beta plane. An oscillation in a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jonathan M. Lilly , Richard K. Scott , Sofia C. Olhede

The variational theory of the perfect fluid with an intrinsic hypermomentum is developed. The Lagrangian density of such fluid is stated and the equations of motion of the fluid and the evolution equation of the hypermomentum tensor are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Babourova , B. N. Frolov

In this paper we introduce a model of relativistic short wave-long wave interaction where the short waves are described by the massless $1+3$-dimensional Thirring model of nonlinear Dirac equation and the long waves are described by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 João Paulo Dias , Hermano Frid

Using the asymmetric fractional calculus of variations, we derive a fractional Lagrangian variational formulation of the convection-diffusion equation in the special case of constant coefficients.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Jacky Cresson , Isabelle Greff , Pierre Inizan