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An ideal compressible fluid is considered, with an equilibrium density being a given function of coordinates due to presence of some static external forces. The slow flows in such system, which do not disturb the density, are investigated…

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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics is a particle-based, fully Lagrangian, method for fluid-flow simulations. In this work, fundamental concepts of the method are first briefly recalled. Then, we present a thorough comparison of three different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-08-22 Kamil Szewc , Jacek Pozorski , Jean-Pierre Minier

A simple variational Lagrangian is proposed for the time development of an arbitrary density matrix, employing the "factorization" of the density. Only the "kinetic energy" appears in the Lagrangian. The formalism applies to pure and mixed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Englman , A. Yahalom

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

We describe a new hybrid framework to model non-thermal spectral signatures from highly energetic particles embedded in a large-scale classical or relativistic MHD flow. Our method makes use of \textit{Lagrangian} particles moving through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Bhargav Vaidya , Andrea Mignone , Gianluigi Bodo , Paola Rossi , Silvano Massaglia

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

The Lagrangian description of fluid flow in relativistic cosmology is extended to the case of flow accelerated by pressure. In the description, the entropy and the vorticity are obtained exactly for the barotropic equation of state. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hideki Asada

The particle proper orthogonal decomposition (PPOD) is demonstrated on cases of particle flows in decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence. Data is generated through one-way coupled simulations, where particle positions and velocities are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-30 Martin Schiødt , Azur Hodzic , Fabien Evrard , Berend van Wachem , Clara M. Velte

In this work, a second order smoothed particle hydrodynamics is derived for the study of relativistic heavy ion collisions. The hydrodynamical equation of motion is formulated in terms of the variational principle. In order to describe the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Philipe Mota , Weixian Chen , Wei-Liang Qian

Hamilton's principle plays a central role in fluid mechanics as a fundamental tool for deriving governing equations, analyzing conservation laws, and designing structure-preserving numerical schemes. However, its classical formulation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 François Gay-Balmaz , Cheng Yang

The Lagrangian formulation for the irrotational wave motion is straightforward and follows from a Lagrangian functional which is the difference between the kinetic and the potential energy of the system. In the case of fluid with constant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-04 Conor T. Curtin , Rossen I. Ivanov

A meshfree Lagrangian method for the fluctuating hydrodynamic equations (FHEs) with fluid-structure interactions is presented. Brownian motion of the particle is investigated by direct numerical simulation of the fluctuating hydrodynamic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Anamika Pandey , Steffen Hardt , Axel Klar , Sudarshan Tiwari

We present a finite element formulation for incompressible viscous flow based on the principle of minimum pressure gradient (PMPG). This variational principle, recently established by Taha, Gonzalez & Shorbagy (Phys. Fluids, vol. 35, 2023),…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-04 Julian J. Rimoli

The manipulation of a collection of fluid particles in a low Reynolds number environment has several important applications. As we demonstrate in this paper, this manipulation problem is related to the scientific question of how fluid flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-27 Jake Buzhardt , Phanindra Tallapragada

The fate of small particles in turbulent flows depends strongly on the surrounding fluid's velocity gradient properties such as rotation and strain-rates. For non-inertial (fluid) particles, the Restricted Euler model provides a simple,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-05 Perry L. Johnson , Charles Meneveau

We reanalyse an arbitrary-wavelength gyrokinetic formalism [A. M. Dimits, Phys. Plasmas $\bf17$, 055901 (2010)], which orders only the vorticity to be small and allows strong, time-varying flows on medium and long wavelengths. We obtain a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Y. Sharma , B. F. McMillan

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

A novel semi-Lagrangian method is introduced to solve numerically the Euler equation for ideal incompressible flow in arbitrary space dimension. It exploits the time-analyticity of fluid particle trajectories and requires, in principle,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 O. Podvigina , V. Zheligovsky , U. Frisch

Lagrangian particle tracking is essential for characterizing turbulent flows, but inferring particle acceleration from inherently noisy position data remains a significant challenge. Fluid particles in turbulence experience extreme,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-02-27 Griffin M Kearney , Kasey M Laurent , Makan Fardad

A new class of integro-partial differential equation models is derived for the prediction of granular flow dynamics. These models are obtained using a novel limiting averaging method (inspired by techniques employed in the derivation of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Denis Blackmore , Roman Samulyak , Anthony Rosato