Dynamics and thermodynamics of axisymmetric flows: I. Theory

Details Dynamics and thermodynamics of axisymmetric flows: I. Theory Dynamics and thermodynamics of axisymmetric flows: I. Theory

2005-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505084v3

Physical Review E 73 (2006) 046308

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.73.046308

We develop new variational principles to study stability and equilibrium of axisymmetric flows. We show that there is an infinite number of steady state solutions. We show that these steady states maximize a (non-universal) $H$-function. We derive relaxation equations which can be used as numerical algorithm to construct stable stationary solutions of axisymmetric flows. In a second part, we develop a thermodynamical approach to the equilibrium states at some fixed coarse-grained scale. We show that the resulting distribution can be divided in a universal part coming from the conservation of robust invariants and one non-universal determined by the initial conditions through the fragile invariants (for freely evolving systems) or by a prior distribution encoding non-ideal effects such as viscosity, small-scale forcing and dissipation (for forced systems). Finally, we derive a parameterization of inviscid mixing to describe the dynamics of the system at the coarse-grained scale.

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