A geometric theory of selective decay with applications in MHD

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/27/8/1747MaRDI QIDQ2877441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Gay-Balmaz, D. D. Holm

Publication date 22 August 2014

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4543

zbMATH Keywords

magnetohydrodynamicsselective decayLie-Poisson formulationEuler-Poincaré equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamiltonian systems on groups of diffeomorphisms and on manifolds of mappings and metrics (37K65) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Abstract: Modifications of the equations of ideal fluid dynamics with advected quantities are introduced that allow selective decay of either the energy $h$ or the Casimir quantities $C$ in the Lie-Poisson formulation. The dissipated quantity (energy or Casimir, respectively) is shown to decrease in time until the modified system reaches an equilibrium state consistent with ideal energy-Casimir equilibria, namely $delta(h+C)=0$. The result holds for Lie-Poisson equations in general, independently of the Lie algebra and the choice of Casimir. This selective decay process is illustrated with a number of examples in 2D and 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).

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