The Objective Deformation Component of a Velocity Field

DOI10.1016/J.EUROMECHFLU.2022.12.007MaRDI QIDQ6420419arXivFDO

Authors Bálint Kaszás, T. Pedergnana, G. Haller

Publication date 13 December 2022

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.EUROMECHFLU.2022.12.007

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of fluid mechanics (76A02) Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99) Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99)

arXiv classification

math.DSnlin.CDphysics.flu-dyn

Abstract: For an arbitrary velocity field $mathbfv$ defined on a finite, fixed spatial domain, we find the closest rigid-body velocity field $mathbf{v}_{RB}$ to $mathbfv$ in the $L^2$ norm. The resulting deformation velocity component, $mathbf{v}_d=mathbf{v-mathbfv}_{RB}$, turns out to be frame-indifferent and physically observable. Specifically, if $mathbf{Q}_{extRB}(t)$ is the rotation tensor describing the motion of the closest rigid body frame, then $mathbfv$ is seen as $mathbf{Q}_{extRB}^{T}mathbf{v}_d$ by an observer in that frame. As a consequence, the momentum, energy, vorticity, enstrophy, and helicity of the flow all become frame-indifferent when computed from the deformation velocity component $mathbf{v}_d$.

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