Beltrami operators and their application to constrained diffusion in Beltrami fields
Beltrami operators and their application to constrained diffusion in Beltrami fields
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Beltrami算子及其在Beltrami油田约束扩散中的应用
DOI:
10.1088/1751-8121/ab1cdc
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发表时间:
2019
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Sato N
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Sato N
Beltrami fields occur as stationary solutions of the Euler equations of fluid flow and as force free magnetic fields in magnetohydrodynamics. In this paper we discuss the role of Beltrami fields when considered as operators acting on a Hamiltonian function to generate particle dynamics. Beltrami operators, which include Poisson operators as a special subclass, arise in the description of topologically constrained diffusion in non-Hamiltonian systems. Extending previous results (Sato and Yoshida 2018 Phys. Rev. E 97 022145), we show that random motion generated by a Beltrami operator satisfies an H-theorem, leading to a generalized Boltzmann distribution on the coordinate system where the Beltrami condition holds. When the Beltrami condition is violated, random fluctuations do not work anymore to homogenize the particle distribution in the coordinate system where they are applied. The resulting distribution becomes heterogeneous. The heterogeneity depends on the'field charge'measuring the departure of the operator from a Beltrami field. Examples of both Beltrami and non-Beltrami operators in three and four real dimensions together with the corresponding equilibrium distribution functions are given.