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Classification of Casimirs in 2D hydrodynamics

Symplectic Geometry 2017-03-14 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We describe a complete list of Casimirs for 2D Euler hydrodynamics on a surface without boundary: we define generalized enstrophies which, along with circulations, form a complete set of invariants for coadjoint orbits of area-preserving diffeomorphisms on a surface. We also outline a possible extension of main notions to the boundary case and formulate several open questions in that setting.

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@article{arxiv.1702.01843,
  title  = {Classification of Casimirs in 2D hydrodynamics},
  author = {Anton Izosimov and Boris Khesin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.01843},
  year   = {2017}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures

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