Kinetic theory of two-dimensional point vortices with collective effects

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2012/02/P02019zbMATH Open1456.82814arXiv1107.1447OpenAlexW3103872522MaRDI QIDQ3301344FDOQ3301344

Authors: Pierre-Henri Chavanis 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a kinetic theory of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics taking collective effects into account. We first recall the approach of Dubin & O'Neil [Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1286 (1988)] that leads to a Lenard-Balescu-type kinetic equation for axisymmetric flows. When collective effects are neglected, it reduces to the Landau-type kinetic equation obtained independently in our previous papers [P.H. Chavanis, Phys. Rev. E 64, 026309 (2001); Physica A 387, 1123 (2008)]. We also consider the relaxation of a test vortex in a "sea" (bath) of field vortices. Its stochastic motion is described in terms of a Fokker-Planck equation. We determine the diffusion coefficient and the drift term by explicitly calculating the first and second order moments of the radial displacement of the test vortex from its equations of motion, taking collective effects into account. This generalizes the expressions obtained in our previous works. We discuss the scaling with N of the relaxation time for the system as a whole and for a test vortex in a bath.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1447

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

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