Physics – Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
2006-10-02
Physics
Mathematical Physics
22 pages. This review is based on an invited lecture given at the meeting Mathematical Hydrodynamics held at the Steklov Insti
Scientific paper
More than 150 years after their invention by Hamilton, quaternions are now widely used in the aerospace and computer animation industries to track the paths of moving objects undergoing three-axis rotations. It is shown here that they provide a natural way of selecting an appropriate ortho-normal frame -- designated the quaternion-frame -- for a particle in a Lagrangian flow, and of obtaining the equations for its dynamics. How these ideas can be applied to the three-dimensional Euler fluid equations is then considered. This work has a bearing on the issue of whether the Euler equations develop a singularity in a finite time. Some of the literature on this topic is reviewed, which includes both the Beale-Kato-Majda theorem and associated work on the direction of vorticity by both Constantin, Fefferman & Majda and Deng, Hou and Yu. It is then shown how the quaternion formulation provides a further direction of vorticity result using the Hessian of the pressure.
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