Poisson brackets in hydrodynamics

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Abstract: This paper investigates different Poisson structures that have been proposed to give a Hamiltonian formulation to evolution equations issued from fluid mechanics. Our aim is to explore the main brackets which have been proposed and to discuss the difficulties which arise when one tries to give a rigorous meaning to these brackets. Our main interest is in the definition of a valid and usable bracket to study rotational fluid flows with a free boundary. We discuss some results which have emerged in the literature to solve some of the difficulties that arise. It appears to the author that the main problems are still open.


This paper discusses various Poisson structures which provide the Hamiltonian formulations of numerous evolution equations in fluid mechanics. The principal observation is that in infinite dimensions the Lie-Poisson brackets are not defined for all smooth functionals. This rises the following questions: whether the chosen bracket is closed for the class of the functionals for which it is defined and whether the fundamental Jacobi identity is satisfied? The presented discussion based on concrete examples and the supplied list of references will be of definite help for the readers who are interested in peculiarities of Lie-Poisson structures in infinite dimensional spaces.




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