Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996apj...471..385c&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal v.471, p.385
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
123
Celestial Mechanics, Stellar Dynamics, Turbulence
Scientific paper
In this article, we stress the analogy between two-dimensional vortices and collisionless stellar systems. This analogy is based on the similar morphology of the Euler and Vlasov equations. These equations develop finer and finer filaments, and a statistical description is appropriate to smooth out the fluctuations and describe the macroscopic evolution of the system. We show here that the two descriptions are similar and apply the methods obtained in two-dimensional turbulence to the case of stellar_systems. In particular, we propose a new evolution equation for the coarse grained distribution function barƒ based on a general maximum entropy production principle. This equation (of a generalized Fokker-Planck type) takes into account the "incompleteness" and the "statistical degeneracy of the violent relaxation and should be able to model the evolution of collisionless stellar systems.
Chavanis Pierre-Henri
Robert Raoul
Sommeria Joel
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