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We suggest the Hamiltonian approach for fluid mechanics based on the dynamics, formulated in terms of Lagrangian variables. The construction of the canonical variables of the fluid sheds a light of the origin of Clebsh variables, introduced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Antoniou , G. P. Pronko

A phase-field model that takes into account the bending energy of fluid vesicles is presented. The Canham-Helfrich model is derived in the sharp-interface limit. A dynamic equation for the phase-field has been solved numerically to find…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Campelo , A. Hernandez-Machado

Biomembranes and vesicles consisting of multiple phases can attain a multitude of shapes, undergoing complex shape transitions. We study a Cahn--Hilliard model on an evolving hypersurface coupled to Navier--Stokes equations on the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We study the Hamiltonian formalism for second order and fourth order nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. In the case of second order equation, we consider cubic and logarithmic nonlinearities. Since the Lagrangians generating these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Ali Pazarci , Umut Can Turhan , Nader Ghazanfari , Ilmar Gahramanov

Active proteins and membrane-bound motors exert force dipole flows along fluid interfaces and lipid bilayers. We develop a Hamiltonian framework for the interactions of pusher and puller dipoles embedded in an incompressible two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-27 Sneha Krishnan , Rickmoy Samanta

The contact geometric structure of the thermodynamic phase space is used to introduce a novel symplectic structure on the tangent bundle of the equilibrium space. Moreover, it turns out that the equilibrium space can be interpreted as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Luis Aragon-Munoz , Hernando Quevedo

The Hamiltonian formulation for the mechanical systems with reparametrization-invariant Lagrangians, depending on the worldline external curvatures is given, which is based on the use of moving frame. A complete sets of constraints are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Nersessian

Hamilton's principle of stationary action lies at the foundation of theoretical physics and is applied in many other disciplines from pure mathematics to economics. Despite its utility, Hamilton's principle has a subtle pitfall that often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Chad R. Galley

A systematic Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein-Cartan system, based on the Hilbert-Palatini action with the Barbero-Immirzi and cosmological constants, is performed using the traditional ADM decomposition and without fixing the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Erick I. Duque

We devise a stochastic Hamiltonian formulation of the water wave problem. This stochastic representation is built within the framework of the modelling under location uncertainty. Starting from restriction to the free surface of the general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Evgueni Dinvay , Etienne Memin

A simple analytical microscopic expression for the surface tension of liquids $\gamma$ is obtained which is in a good agreement with available data of numerical experiments. We apply the integral transformation that maps the fluid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. V. Brilliantov , J. M. Rubi

Riemannian geometry is a particular case of Hamiltonian mechanics: the orbits of the hamiltonian $H=\frac{1}{2}g^{ij}p_{i}p_{j}$ are the geodesics. Given a symplectic manifold (\Gamma,\omega), a hamiltonian $H:\Gamma\to\mathbb{R}$ and a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 S. G. Rajeev

We examine a two dimensional fluid system consisting of a lower medium bounded underneath by a flatbed and an upper medium with a free surface. The two media are separated by a free common interface. The gravity driven surface and internal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-07 Rossen Ivanov

We describe the Hamilton geometry of the phase space of particles whose motion is characterised by general dispersion relations. In this framework spacetime and momentum space are naturally curved and intertwined, allowing for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-04 Leonardo Barcaroli , Lukas K. Brunkhorst , Giulia Gubitosi , Niccoló Loret , Christian Pfeifer

Consider a surface, enclosing a fixed volume, described by a free-energy depending only on the local geometry; for example, the Canham-Helfrich energy quadratic in the mean curvature describes a fluid membrane. The stress at any point on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jemal Guven

A phase field model for dealing with shape instabilities in fluid membrane vesicles is presented. This model takes into account the Canham-Helfrich bending energy with spontaneous curvature. A dynamic equation for the phase-field is also…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-07-26 F. Campelo , A. Hernandez-Machado

The dynamics of a spherically symmetric thin shell with arbitrary rest mass and surface tension interacting with a central black hole is studied. A careful investigation of all classical solutions reveals that the value of the radius of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 P. Hajicek , J. Bicak

For binary mixtures of fluids without chemical reactions, but with components having different temperatures, the Hamilton principle of least action is able to produce the equation of motion for each component and a balance equation of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-05 Henri Gouin , Tommaso Ruggeri

A Hamiltonian model for the propagation of internal water waves interacting with surface waves, a current and an uneven bottom is examined. Using the so-called Dirichlet-Neumann operators, the water wave system is expressed in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-09 Lili Fan , Ruonan Liu , Hongjun Gao

We propose a mixed quantum-classical hydrodynamic framework to model short-time inertial effects in the non-adiabatic evolution of a quantum solute coupled to a classical polar solvent. Drawing upon the work of Burghardt and Bagchi [Chem.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 François Gay-Balmaz , Cesare Tronci