scholarly journals A fluid mechanic’s analysis of the teacup singularity

2020 ◽  
Vol 476 (2240) ◽  
pp. 20200348
Author(s):  
Dwight Barkley
Keyword(s):  
Euler Equations ◽  
Pressure Field ◽  
Meridional Flow ◽  
Cylinder Wall ◽  
Time Singularity ◽  
Pressure Poisson Equation ◽  
Velocity Gradients ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Finite Time Singularity ◽  
Incompressible Euler

The mechanism for singularity formation in an inviscid wall-bounded fluid flow is investigated. The incompressible Euler equations are numerically simulated in a cylindrical container. The flow is axisymmetric with the swirl. The simulations reproduce and corroborate aspects of prior studies reporting strong evidence for a finite-time singularity. The analysis here focuses on the interplay between inertia and pressure, rather than on vorticity. The linearity of the pressure Poisson equation is exploited to decompose the pressure field into independent contributions arising from the meridional flow and from the swirl, and enforcing incompressibility and enforcing flow confinement. The key pressure field driving the blowup of velocity gradients is that confining the fluid within the cylinder walls. A model is presented based on a primitive-variables formulation of the Euler equations on the cylinder wall, with closure coming from how pressure is determined from velocity. The model captures key features in the mechanics of the blowup scenario.

scholarly journals Circulation and Energy Theorem Preserving Stochastic Fluids

2019 ◽  
Vol 150 (6) ◽  
pp. 2776-2814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore D. Drivas ◽  
Darryl D. Holm
Keyword(s):  
Variational Principle ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Euler Equations ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Fluid Models ◽  
Smooth Solutions ◽  
Stochastic Fluid Models ◽  
Natural Extensions ◽  
Stochastic Fluid ◽  
Incompressible Euler

AbstractSmooth solutions of the incompressible Euler equations are characterized by the property that circulation around material loops is conserved. This is the Kelvin theorem. Likewise, smooth solutions of Navier–Stokes are characterized by a generalized Kelvin's theorem, introduced by Constantin–Iyer (2008). In this note, we introduce a class of stochastic fluid equations, whose smooth solutions are characterized by natural extensions of the Kelvin theorems of their deterministic counterparts, which hold along certain noisy flows. These equations are called the stochastic Euler–Poincaré and stochastic Navier–Stokes–Poincaré equations respectively. The stochastic Euler–Poincaré equations were previously derived from a stochastic variational principle by Holm (2015), which we briefly review. Solutions of these equations do not obey pathwise energy conservation/dissipation in general. In contrast, we also discuss a class of stochastic fluid models, solutions of which possess energy theorems but do not, in general, preserve circulation theorems.

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