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The paper reports the recent results on application and extension of the matrix formulation of lagrangian hydrodynamic equations. The matrix approach is based on the notion of continuous deformation of infinitesimal material elements and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Yakubovich , D. A. Zenkovich

In this paper, we present a Lagrangian formalism for nonequilibrium thermodynamics. This formalism is an extension of the Hamilton principle in classical mechanics that allows the inclusion of irreversible phenomena in both discrete and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

The Lagrangian average (LA) of the ideal fluid equations preserves their transport structure. This transport structure is responsible for the Kelvin circulation theorem of the LA flow and, hence, for its convection of potential vorticity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Darryl D. Holm

We show how dynamical equations for liquid films and drops on uneven surfaces, including contact line dynamics and evaporation/condensation effects, may be formulated as a variational dynamics, generated via Onsager's variational principle.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-15 Gyula I Tóth , David N Sibley , Agnes J Bokányi-Tóth , Dmitri Tseluiko , Andrew J Archer

This lecture provides some introduction to perfect fluid dynamics within the framework of general relativity. The presentation is based on the Carter-Lichnerowicz approach. It has the advantage over the more traditional approach of leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric Gourgoulhon

We formulate a perturbative approximation to gravitational instability, based on Lagrangian hydrodynamics in Newtonian cosmology. We take account of `pressure' effect of fluid, which is kinematically caused by velocity dispersion, to aim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaaki Morita , Takayuki Tatekawa

In the variational principle leading to the Euler equation for a perfect fluid, we can use the method of undetermined multiplier for holonomic constraints representing mass conservation and adiabatic condition. For a dissipative fluid, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-03 Hiroki Fukagawa , Youhei Fujitani

In this paper a new approach is proposed to quantize mechanical systems whose equations of motion can not be put into Hamiltonian form. This approach is based on a new type of variational principle, which is adopted to a describe a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 Tianshu Luo , Yimu Guo

The variational principle and the corresponding differential equation for geodesic circles in two dimensional (pseudo)-Riemannian space are being discovered. The relationship with the physical notion of uniformly accelerated relativistic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-25 Roman Ya. Matsyuk

A new Lagrangian particle method for solving Euler equations for compressible inviscid fluid or gas flows is proposed. Similar to smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), the method represents fluid cells with Lagrangian particles and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Hsin-Chiang Chen , Roman Samulyak , Wei Li

Using the conservation laws for charge, energy, momentum, and angular momentum, we derive hydrodynamic equations for the charge density, local temperature, and fluid velocity, as well as for the spin tensor, starting from local equilibrium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Wojciech Florkowski , Bengt Friman , Amaresh Jaiswal , Enrico Speranza

The Lagrangian average (LA) of the ideal fluid equations preserves their fundamental transport structure. This transport structure is responsible for the Kelvin circulation theorem of the LA flow and, hence, for its potential vorticity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Darryl D. Holm

Variational formulations for viscous flows which lead to the Navier-Stokes equation are examined. Since viscosity leads to dissipation and, therefore, to the irreversible transfer of mechanical energy to heat, thermal degrees of freedom…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-06 Sylvio R. Bistafa

A newly proposed framework of perfect-fluid relativistic hydrodynamics for particles with spin 1/2 is briefly reviewed. The hydrodynamic equations follow entirely from the conservation laws for energy, momentum, and angular momentum. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 W. Florkowski , B. Friman , A. Jaiswal , R. Ryblewski , E. Speranza

We examine hydrodynamics from the perspective of an effective field theory. The microscopic scale in this case is the thermalization scale, and the macroscopic scale is the gradient, with thermal fluctuations playing the role of $\hbar$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 David Montenegro , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Giorgio Torrieri

For integrable systems in the sense of multidimensional consistency (MDC) we can consider the Lagrangian as a form, which is closed on solutions of the equations of motion. For 2-dimensional systems, described by partial difference…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-05-04 Sarah B. Lobb , Frank W. Nijhoff

We apply the stochastic variational method to the action of the ideal fluid and showed that the Navier-Stokes equation is derived. In this variational method, the effect of dissipation is realized as the direct consequence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-28 T. Koide

Variational integrators for Lagrangian dynamical systems provide a systematic way to derive geometric numerical methods. These methods preserve a discrete multisymplectic form as well as momenta associated to symmetries of the Lagrangian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Michael Kraus , Omar Maj

This work is devoted to the study of dissipative fluid systems, through the lens of a geometric variational formulation. Building upon previous works extending Hamilton's principle to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the present method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Bastien Manach-Pérennou , François Gay-Balmaz

The log-homotopy particle flow filter resolves the Bayesian update by transporting particles along a continuous trajectory in pseudo-time. However, the governing partial differential equation for the flow velocity is fundamentally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Olivér Törő , Domonkos Csuzdi , Tamás Bécsi