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Fluid dynamics accompanies with the entropy production thus increases the local temperature, which plays an important role in charged systems such as the ion channel in biological environment and electrodiffusion in capacitors/batteries. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-09 Pei Liu , Simo Wu , Chun Liu

Applying the theory of self-adjoint extensions of Hermitian operators to Koopman von Neumann classical mechanics, the most general set of probability distributions is found for which entropy is conserved by Hamiltonian evolution. A new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-24 Gerard McCaul , Alexander Pechen , Denys I. Bondar

Entropic forces have recently attracted considerable attention as ways to reformulate, retrodict, and perhaps even "explain'" classical Newtonian gravity from a rather specific thermodynamic perspective. In this article I point out that if…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-29 Matt Visser

The usual canonical Hamiltonian or Lagrangian formalism of classical mechanics applied to macroscopic systems describes energy conserving adiabatic motion. If irreversible diabatic processes are to be included, then the law of increasing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Silverberg , A. Widom

Entropic dynamics, a program that aims at deriving the laws of physics from standard probabilistic and entropic rules for processing information, is developed further. We calculate the probability for an arbitrary path followed by a system…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Ariel Caticha

We formulate, under general conditions, the problem of maximisation of the total entropy of the system, assumed to be in a composable form, for fixed total value of the constrained quantity. We derive the general form of the composability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ramandeep S. Johal

It is possible to derive the maximum entropy principle from thermodynamic stability requirements. Using as a starting point the equilibrium probability distribution, currently used in non-extensive thermostatistics, it turns out that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Naudts

We prove that under certain assumptions a partial differential equation can be derived from a variational principle. It is well-known from Noether's theorem that symmetries of a variational functional lead to conservation laws of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Markus Dafinger

We discuss the form of the entropy for classical hamiltonian systems with long-range interaction using the Vlasov equation which describes the dynamics of a $N$-particle in the limit $N\to\infty$. The stationary states of the hamiltonian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. M. Rocha Filho , A. Figueiredo , M. A. Amato

The (measure-theoretical) entropy of a diffeomorphism along an expanding invariant foliation is the rate of complexity generated by the diffeomorphism along the leaves of the foliation. We prove that this number varies upper…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Jiagang Yang

Given a first-order nonlinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws endowed with a convex entropy-entropy flux pair, we can consider the class of weak solutions containing shock waves depending upon some small scale parameters. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Philippe G. LeFloch , Allen M. Tesdall

We consider the Euler equations for compressible fluids in a nozzle whose cross-section is variable and may contain discontinuities. We view these equations as a hyperbolic system in nonconservative form and investigate weak solutions in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-12-24 Dietmar Kroener , Philippe G. LeFloch , Mai-Duc Thanh

Dipole-conserving fluids serve as examples of kinematically constrained systems that can be understood on the basis of symmetry. They are known to display various exotic features including glassylike dynamics, subdiffusive transport, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-18 Aleksander Głódkowski , Francisco Peña-Benítez , Piotr Surówka

This paper investigates some properties of entropy solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws on a Riemannian manifold. First, we generalize the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) property to manifolds, by deriving conditions on the flux of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paulo Amorim , Matania Ben-Artzi , Philippe G. LeFloch

The field-dependent equilibrium thermodynamics is derived with two methods: either by using the potential formalism either by the statistical method. Therefore, Pontrjagin's extremum principle of control theory is applied to an extended…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. D. Bauer

The monotonicity and stability of difference schemes for, in general, hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with source terms are studied. The basic approach is to investigate the stability and monotonicity of a non-linear scheme in terms…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-11-04 V. S. Borisov , M. Mond

A novel principle is presented which allows for the proof of bounded weak solutions to a class of physically relevant, strongly coupled parabolic systems exhibiting a formal gradient-flow structure. The main feature of these systems is that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Ansgar Jüngel

We investigate multiscale Gibbs measures from a variational and probabilistic viewpoint, focusing on the structural asymmetry among conditional entropies that characterizes their construction. We show how this asymmetry emerges both from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Francesco Camilli , Pierluigi Contucci , Emanuele Mingione

The helicity is a topological conserved quantity of the Euler equations which imposes significant constraints on the dynamics of vortex lines. In the compressible setting the conservation law only holds under the assumption that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Daniel W. Boutros , John D. Gibbon

We study the following class of scalar hyperbolic conservation laws with discontinuous fluxes: \partial_t\rho+\partial_xF(x,\rho)=0. The main feature of such a conservation law is the discontinuity of the flux function in the space variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-02 Gui-Qiang Chen , Nadine Even , Christian Klingenberg