Lagrangian dynamics of the Navier-Stokes equation
Fluid Dynamics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Most researches on fluid dynamics are mostly dedicated to obtain the solutions of Navier-Stokes equation which governs fluid flow with particular boundary conditions and approximations. We propose an alternative approach to deal with fluid dynamics using the lagrangian. We attempt to develop a gauge invariant lagrangian which reconstructs the Navier-Stokes equation through the Euler-Lagrange equation. The lagrangian consists of gauge boson field with appropriate content describing the fluid dynamics, i.e. . An example of applying the lagrangian to the interaction of fluid in a solitonic medium is also given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0508092,
title = {Lagrangian dynamics of the Navier-Stokes equation},
author = {A. Sulaiman and L. T. Handoko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0508092},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages, 1 figure, talk at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics 2005, Bandung