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We develop the kinetic theory of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics and illustrate the main results of the theory with numerical simulations. We first consider the evolution of the system "as a whole" and show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. H. Chavanis , M. Lemou

We complete the kinetic theory of two-dimensional (2D) point vortices initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of 2D point vortices submitted to a small external stochastic perturbation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-29 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We develop a kinetic theory of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics taking collective effects into account. We first recall the approach of Dubin & O'Neil [Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1286 (1988)] that leads to a Lenard-Balescu-type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Starting from the Liouville equation, we derive the exact hierarchy of equations satisfied by the reduced distribution functions of the single species point vortex gas in two dimensions. Considering an expansion of the solution in powers of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. H. Chavanis

We present a kinetic theory for inhomogeneous systems with weak long-range interactions. Starting from the Klimontovich equation and using a quasilinear theory, we obtain a closed kinetic equation describing the relaxation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

This paper derives a kinetic equation for a two-dimensional single species point vortex system. We consider a situation (different from the ones considered previously) of weak mean flow where the time scale of the macroscopic motion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-28 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We discuss the kinetic theory of stellar systems and two-dimensional vortices and stress their analogies. We recall the derivation of the Landau and Lenard-Balescu equations from the Klimontovich formalism. These equations take into account…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

A mechanism of the self-organization in an unbounded two-dimensional (2D) point vortex system is discussed. A kinetic equation for the system with positive and negative vortices is derived using the Klimontovich formalism. Similar to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-15 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori

Starting from the Liouville equation, and using a BBGKY-like hierarchy, we derive a kinetic equation for the point vortex gas in two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamics, taking two-body correlations and collective effects into account. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We study the formation and the evolution of velocity distribution tails for systems with long-range interactions. In the thermal bath approximation, the evolution of the distribution function of a test particle is governed by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Mohammed Lemou

This paper considers a kinetic equation for an unbounded two-dimensional single species point vortex system. No axisymmetric flow is assumed. Using the kinetic theory based on the Klimontovich formalism, we derive a collision term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-13 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori

We investigate the long-term relaxation of a distribution of $N$ point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics. To focus on the regime of weak collective amplification, we embed these point vortices within a static background potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

An out of equilibrium two-dimensional superfluid relaxes towards equilibrium via a process of coarsening, driven by the annihilation of vortices with antivortices. Here we present a comparison of two different numerical models of this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-17 R. J. Tattersall , A. W. Baggaley , T. P. Billam

We complete the kinetic theory of inhomogeneous systems with long-range interactions initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of particles submitted to a small external stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We propose to use spin hydrodynamics, a two-fluid model of spin propagation, as a generalization of the diffusion equation. We show that in the dense limit spin hydrodynamics reduces to Fick's law and the diffusion equation. In the opposite…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-02 Thomas Schaefer

The drift term appearing in an anaylitically obtained kinetic equation for a point vortex system is evidenced numerically. It is revealed that the local temperature in a region where the vortices are frequently transported by the diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-03 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori

We review and complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of spatially homogeneous systems with long-range interactions taking collective effects into account. The evolution of the system as a whole is described by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-20 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We derive the hydrodynamic equations of perfect fluids without boost invariance [1] from kinetic theory. Our approach is to follow the standard derivation of the Vlasov hierarchy based on an a-priori unknown collision functional satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Kevin T. Grosvenor , Niels A. Obers , Subodh P. Patil

The kinetic theory for a fluid of hard spheres which undergo endothermic and/or exothermic reactions with mass transfer is developed. The exact balance equations for concentration, density, velocity and temperature are derived. The Enskog…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 James F. Lutsko

The dynamics of a degree of freedom associated to an axial vector in contact with a heat bath is decribed by means of a probability distribution function obeying a Fokker-Planck equation. The equation is derived by using mesoscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-27 J. G. Méndez-Bermúdez , I. Santamaría-Holek
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