We study relaxation dynamics of the mean field of many point vortices from quasi-equilibrium to equilibrium. Maximum entropy production principle implies four consistent equations concerning relaxation-equilibrium states and patch-point vortex models. Point vortex relaxation equation coincides with Brownian point vortex equation in micro-canonical setting. Mathematical analysis to point vortex relaxation equation is done in accordance with the Smoluchowski-Poisson equation.
Part of the book: Vortex Structures in Fluid Dynamic Problems
We propose a new model describing the dynamics of wire made of shape memory alloys, by combining an elastic curve theory and the Ginzburg-Landau theory. The wire is assumed to be a closed curve and is not to be stretched with deformation. The derived system of nonlinear partial differential equations consists of a thermoelastic system and a geometric evolution equation under the inextensible condition. We also show that the system has dual variation structure as well as a straight material case. The structure implies stability of infinitesimally stable stationary state in the Lyapunov sense.
Part of the book: Shape Memory Alloys
We study a model describing relaxation dynamics of point vortices, from quasi-stationary state to the stationary state. It takes the form of a mean field equation of Brownian point vortices derived from Chavanis, and is formulated by our previous work as a limit equation of the patch model studied by Robert-Someria. This model is subject to the micro-canonical statistic laws; conservation of energy, that of mass, and increasing of the entropy. We study the existence and nonexistence of the global-in-time solution. It is known that this profile is controlled by a bound of the negative inverse temperature. Here we prove a rigorous result for radially symmetric case. Hence E/M2 large and small imply the global-in-time and blowup in finite time of the solution, respectively. Where E and M denote the total energy and the total mass, respectively.
Part of the book: Vortex Dynamics