For ideal fluids, Eulerian and Lagrangian instabilities are equivalent

DOI10.1007/S00039-004-0482-7MaRDI QIDQ1764299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen C. Preston

Publication date 24 February 2005

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-004-0482-7

zbMATH Keywords

Eulerian instabilityideal fluidLagrangian instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamiltonian systems on groups of diffeomorphisms and on manifolds of mappings and metrics (37K65) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Stability and instability of nonparallel flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E09)

Review text

An attempt to clarify the relationship between Eulerian instability and Lagrangian instability using a decoupling of the Jacobi equation is offered. It is found an explicit counterexample to the hypothesis that negative curvature on the diffeomorphism group is responsible for exponential Lagrangian instability. Instead, it is concluded that only exponential Eulearian instability can create exponential Lagrangian instability. The techniques used in this paper for the simple cases where the two-dimensional fluid flow has only isolated nondegenerate stagnation points can also be applied to study stability in other norms.

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