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Extensive studies have investigated the transition mechanism of boundary layers initiated by a single primary instability. In a real-world scenario, however, multiple primary instabilities of different physical nature would coexist and…

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Motivated by a similar approach for Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics, this paper proposes an extended "shadow" Lagrangian density for quantum states of superfluids. The extended Lagrangian contains an additional field variable that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Patrick Henning , Anders M. N. Niklasson

The Lagrangian properties of the velocity field in a magnetized fluid are studied using three-dimensional simulations of a helical magnetohydrodynamic dynamo. We compute the attracting and repelling Lagrangian coherent structures, which are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Erico L. Rempel , Abraham C. -L. Chian , Axel Brandenburg

The evolution of a Taylor-Green forced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system showing dynamo activity is analyzed via direct numerical simulations. The statistical properties of the velocity and magnetic field in Eulerian coordinates and along…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Holger Homann , Yannick Ponty , Giorgio Krstulovic , Rainer Grauer

In the present work we redefine and generalize the action principle for dissipative systems proposed by Riewe by fixing the mathematical inconsistencies present in the original approach. In order to formulate a quadratic Lagrangian for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 Matheus J. Lazo , Cesar E. Krumreich

We study the mobility and the diffusion coefficient of an inertial tracer advected by a two-dimensional incompressible laminar flow, in the presence of thermal noise and under the action of an external force. We show, with extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-24 A. Sarracino , F. Cecconi , A. Puglisi , A. Vulpiani

Non-linear dynamical systems represent a compact, flexible, and robust tool for reactive motion generation. The effectiveness of dynamical systems relies on their ability to accurately represent stable motions. Several approaches have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Matteo Saveriano

In this work, we leverage the Hamiltonian kind structure for accurate uncertainty propagation through a nonlinear dynamical system. The developed approach utilizes the fact that the stationary probability density function is purely a…

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We consider electromagnetic nonlinear normal modes in cylindrical cavity resonators filled with a nonlinear nondispersive medium. The key feature of the analysis is that exact analytical solutions of the nonlinear field equations are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 A. V. Kudrin , O. A. Kudrina , E. Yu. Petrov

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

In this paper we have chosen to work with two different approaches to solving the inverse problem of the calculus of variation. The first approach is based on an integral representation of the Lagrangian function that uses the first…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Basir Ahamed Khan , Supriya Chatterjee , Golam Ali Sekh , Benoy Talukdar

Damping mechanisms in magnetic systems determine the lifetime, diffusion and transport properties of magnons, domain walls, magnetic vortices, and skyrmions. Based on the phenomenological Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, here the effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-16 Levente Rózsa , Julian Hagemeister , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Roland Wiesendanger

In this manuscript using the asymptotic method of multiscale nonlinear theory we construct a nonlinear theory of the appearance of large-scale structures in the stratified conductive medium with the presence of small-scale oscillations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 M. I. Kopp , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

We study the large-scale dynamics of charged particles in a rapidly oscillating field and formulate its classical and quantum effective theory description. The high-order perturbative results for the effective action are presented.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Alexander A. Penin , Aneca Su

We present a theoretical method to generate a highly accurate {\em time-independent} Hamiltonian governing the finite-time behavior of a time-periodic system. The method exploits infinitesimal unitary transformation steps, from which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-30 Michael Vogl , Pontus Laurell , Aaron D. Barr , Gregory A. Fiete

We report measurements of conditional Eulerian and Lagrangian structure functions in order to assess the effects of non-universal properties of the large scales on the small scales in turbulence. We study a 1m $\times$ 1m $\times$ 1.5m flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniel B. Blum , Surendra Kunwar , James Johnson , Greg A. Voth

We discuss an elementary derivation of variational symmetries and corresponding integrals of motion for the Lagrangian systems depending on acceleration. Providing several examples, we make the manuscript accessible to a wide range of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Ege Coban , Ilmar Gahramanov , Dilara Kosva

Using the theory of large deviations, macroscopic fluctuation theory provides a framework to understand the behaviour of non-equilibrium dynamics and steady states in diffusive systems. We extend this framework to a minimal model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-02 D. R. Michiel Renger , Upanshu Sharma

We present a model for the dynamics of elastic or poroelastic bodies with monopolar repulsive long-range (electrostatic) interactions at large strains. Our model respects (only) locally the non-self-interpenetration condition but can cope…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Tomas Roubicek , Giuseppe Tomassetti

A new geometric approach to systems with boundary energy flow is developed using infinite-dimensional Dirac structures within the Lagrangian formalism. This framework satisfies a list of consistency criteria with the geometric setting of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 François Gay-Balmaz , Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Hiroaki Yoshimura