On Maximally Mixed Equilibria of Two-Dimensional Perfect Fluids
On Maximally Mixed Equilibria of Two-Dimensional Perfect Fluids
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DOI:
10.1007/s00205-022-01825-w
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发表时间:
2022-04
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Michele Dolce;Theodore D. Drivas
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作者:
Michele Dolce;Theodore D. Drivas
The vorticity of a two-dimensional perfect (incompressible and inviscid) fluid is transported by its area preserving flow. Given an initial vorticity distribution, predicting the long time behavior which can persist is an issue of fundamental importance. In the infinite time limit, some irreversible mixing ofcan occur. Since kinetic energyis conserved, not all the mixed states are relevant and it is natural to consider only the ones with energycorresponding to. The set of said vorticity fields, denoted by, contains all the possible end states of the fluid motion. A. Shnirelman introduced the concept ofmaximally mixed states(any further mixing would necessarily change their energy), and proved they are perfect fluid equilibria. We offer a new perspective on this theory by showing that any minimizer of any strictly convex Casimir inis maximally mixed, as well as discuss its relation to classical statistical hydrodynamics theories. Thus, (weak) convergence to equilibrium cannot be excluded solely on the grounds of vorticity transport and conservation of kinetic energy. On the other hand, on domains with symmetry (for example straight channel or annulus), we exploit all the conserved quantities and the characterizations ofto give examples of open sets of initial data which can be arbitrarily close to any shear or radial flow inof vorticity but do not weakly converge to them in the long time limit.