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We consider the Euler equations of incompressible inviscid fluid dynamics. We discuss a variational formulation of the governing equations in Lagrangian coordinates. We compute variational symmetries of the action functional and generate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-21 Ravi Shankar

This paper summarizes and generalizes a recently proposed mathematical framework that unifies the standard formalisms of special relativity and quantum mechanics. The framework is based on Hilbert spaces H of functions of four space-time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Alexey A. Kryukov

We define a formal Riemannian metric on a given conformal class of metrics on a closed Riemann surface. We show interesting formal properties for this metric, in particular the curvature is nonpositive and the Liouville energy is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-20 Matthew J. Gursky , Jeffrey Streets

Let $\Omega$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary and let $u_t$ be the solution of the heat equation on $\Omega$, having constant unit initial data $u_0=1$ and Dirichlet boundary conditions ($u_t=0$ on the boundary, at all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Alessandro Savo

In this paper, we present consistent and inconsistent discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations with the kinematic pressure, Bernoulli function and EMAC function. Semi- and fully discrete energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Xi Chen , Yuwen Li , Corina Drapaca , John Cimbala

This article is devoted to the derivation of the incompressible sub-Riemannian Euler and the sub-Riemannian Navier-Stokes systems, and the analysis of the last one in the case of the Heisenberg group. In contrast to the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Adrien Tendani-Soler

As V. I. Arnold observed in the 1960s, the Euler equations of incompressible fluid flow correspond formally to geodesic equations in a group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms. Working in an Eulerian framework, we study incompressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Jian-Guo Liu , Robert L. Pego , Dejan Slepčev

We study the structure of the Mather and Aubry sets for the family of lagrangians given by the kinetic energy associated to a riemannian metric $ g$ on a closed manifold $ M$. In this case the Euler-Lagrange flow is the geodesic flow of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Gonzalo Contreras , José Antônio G. Miranda

The celebrated geometric control condition of Bardos, Lebeau, and Rauch is necessary and sufficient for wave observability [1,7] and exact controllability. It requires that any point in phase-space be transported by the generalized geodesic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Nicolas Burq , Belhassen Dehman , Jérôme Le Rousseau

In the first part of this paper, we study the following non-homogeneous, locally constrained inverse curvature flow in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, \begin{align*}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Yingxiang Hu , Mohammad N. Ivaki

We consider a geodesic flow on a compact manifold endowed with a Riemannian (or Finsler, or Lorentz) metric satisfying some generic, explicit conditions. We couple the geodesic flow with a time-dependent potential, driven by an external…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Marian Gidea , Rafael de la Llave

In this paper, by modifying the argument shift method,we prove Liouville integrability of geodesic flows of normal metrics (invariant Einstein metrics) on the Ledger-Obata $n$-symmetric spaces $K^n/\diag(K)$, where $K$ is a semisimple…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-21 Bozidar Jovanovic

We present a comprehensive Eulerian (Hamiltonian) framework for relativistic fluid dynamics in curved spacetimes, with emphasis on Schwarzschild geometry. The key innovation lies in the consistent use of density and three-velocity fields,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Arpan Krishna Mitra , Subir Ghosh

This paper studies the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Navier--Stokes equations governing stratified flows in a bounded domain under a gravitational potential \(f\). Our main results are as follows. First, we provide a rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Song Jiang , Quan Wang

We investigate the formal stability of finite-amplitude non-zonal flows bifurcating from the trivial state in the unforced 2D Euler equations on the sphere. To bypass the degeneracy of the spherical Laplacian and filter out the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Yuri Cacchiò

We present a Lagrangian-Eulerian scheme to solve the shallow water equations in the case of spatially variable bottom geometry. Using a local curvilinear reference system anchored on the bottom surface, we develop an effective first-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Eduardo Abreu , Elena Bachini , John Perez , Mario Putti

The Euclidean paradigm that spheres optimize mean curvature variational problems breaks down in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group: neither the Pansu sphere nor the Kor\'anyi sphere is optimal for the variational problems associated with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Mattia Fogagnolo , Andrea Pinamonti , Simone Verzellesi

In this paper we derive a representation of the deterministic 3-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations based on stochastic Lagrangian paths. The particle trajectories obey SDEs driven by a uniform Wiener process; the inviscid Weber formula for…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-16 Peter Constantin , Gautam Iyer

We are interested in the stability analysis of two-dimensional incompressible inviscid fluids. Specifically, we revisit a recent result on the stability of Yudovich's solutions to the incompressible Euler equations in $L^\infty([0,T];H^1)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Diogo Arsénio , Haroune Houamed