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We develop a Lie group geometric framework for the motion of fluids with permeable boundaries that extends Arnold's geometric description of fluid in closed domains. Our setting is based on the classical Hamilton principle applied to fluid…

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We show that the ideal (nondissipative) form of the dynamical equations for the Lipps-Hemler formulation of the anelastic fluid model follow as Euler-Poincar\'{e} equations, obtained from a constrained Hamilton's principle expressed in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-11-27 Darryl D. Holm

In this paper we present a novel approach to the geometric formulation of solid and fluid mechanics within the port-Hamiltonian framework, which extends the standard Hamiltonian formulation to non-conservative and open dynamical systems.…

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This work investigates variational frameworks for modeling stochastic dynamics in incompressible fluids, focusing on large-scale fluid behavior alongside small-scale stochastic processes. The authors aim to develop a coupled system of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Arnaud Debussche , Etienne Mémin

We developed the spacetime-covariant Hamilton principle for barotropic flows of a perfect fluid in the external axial-vector potential conjugate to the helicity current. Such flows carry helicity, a chiral imbalance, controlled by the axial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-01 P. B. Wiegmann

An established strategy for material modeling is provided by energy-based principles such that evolution equations in terms of ordinary differential equations can be derived. However, there exist a variety of material models that also need…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-10 Philipp Junker , Daniel Balzani

This work is devoted to the study of dissipative fluid systems, through the lens of a geometric variational formulation. Building upon previous works extending Hamilton's principle to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the present method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Bastien Manach-Pérennou , François Gay-Balmaz

A port-Hamiltonian model for compressible Newtonian fluid dynamics is presented in entirely coordinate-independent geometric fashion. This is achieved by use of tensor-valued differential forms that allow to describe describe the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-05 Federico Califano , Ramy Rashad , Frederic P. Schuller , Stefano Stramigioli

Hamiltonian variational principles provided, since 60s, the means of developing very successful wave theories for nonlinear free-surface flows, under the assumption of irrotationality. This success, in conjunction with the recognition that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-08 C. P. Mavroeidis , G. A. Athanassoulis

Hamilton's principle is extended to have compatible initial conditions to the strong form. To use a number of computational and theoretical benefits for dynamical systems, the mixed variational formulation is preferred in the systems other…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 Jinkyu Kim

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics were introduced by previous authors both in Lagrangian and Eulerian form. In this paper we introduce simpler Eulerian variational principles from which all the relevant equations of barotropic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Asher Yahalom , Donald Lynden-Bell

A variational principle is further developed for out of equilibrium dynamical systems by using the concept of maximum entropy. With this new formulation it is obtained a set of two first-order differential equations, revealing the same…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-03-22 Mario J. Pinheiro

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

Characteristics of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be seen as action minimizing trajectories of fluid particles. For nonsmooth "viscosity" solutions, which give rise to discontinuous velocity fields, this description is usually pursued only…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 Kostya Khanin , Andrei Sobolevski

We review the development and practical uses of a generalized Maupertuis least action principle in classical mechanics, in which the action is varied under the constraint of fixed mean energy for the trial trajectory. The original…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. G. Gray , G. Karl , V. A. Novikov

A new form of governing equations is derived from Hamilton's principle of least action for a constrained Lagrangian, depending on conserved quantities and their derivatives with respect to the time-space. This form yields conservation laws…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-16 Sergey Gavrilyuk , Henri Gouin

The Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation describes the evolution of the probability density of the position and velocity of particles under the influence of external confinement, interaction, friction, and stochastic force. It is well-known that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Sangmin Park

We present some recent developments on shock capturing methods for nonlinear hyperbolic systems of balance laws, whose prototype is the Euler system of compressible fluid flows, and especially discuss {structure-preserving} techniques. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Philippe G. LeFloch

A neutron star in a compact binary is expected to be well-approximated by a barotropic flow during the inspiral phase. During the merger phase, where tidal disruption and shock-heating occur, a baroclinic description is needed instead. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-19 John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

Variational principles play a central role in classical mechanics, providing compact formulations of dynamics and direct access to conserved quantities. While holonomic systems admit well-known action formulations, non-holonomic systems --…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 A. Rothkopf , W. A. Horowitz