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Main Authors: Chen, Gui-Qiang G., Glimm, James, Said, Hamid
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14240
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author Chen, Gui-Qiang G.
Glimm, James
Said, Hamid
author_facet Chen, Gui-Qiang G.
Glimm, James
Said, Hamid
contents A principle of maximum entropy is proposed in the context of viscous incompressible flow in Eulerian coordinates. The relative entropy functional, defined over the space of $L^2$ divergence-free velocity fields, is maximized relative to alternate measures supported over the energy--enstrophy surface. Since thermodynamic equilibrium distributions are characterized by maximum entropy, connections are drawn with stationary statistical solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Special emphasis is on the correspondence with the final statistics described by Kolmogorov's theory of fully developed turbulence.
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spellingShingle A Principle of Maximum Entropy for the Navier-Stokes Equations
Chen, Gui-Qiang G.
Glimm, James
Said, Hamid
Fluid Dynamics
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
Classical Physics
28D20, 76F02, 28C20, 76D05, 49S05, 35A15, 70G10, 35Q30, 37A50
A principle of maximum entropy is proposed in the context of viscous incompressible flow in Eulerian coordinates. The relative entropy functional, defined over the space of $L^2$ divergence-free velocity fields, is maximized relative to alternate measures supported over the energy--enstrophy surface. Since thermodynamic equilibrium distributions are characterized by maximum entropy, connections are drawn with stationary statistical solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Special emphasis is on the correspondence with the final statistics described by Kolmogorov's theory of fully developed turbulence.
title A Principle of Maximum Entropy for the Navier-Stokes Equations
topic Fluid Dynamics
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
Classical Physics
28D20, 76F02, 28C20, 76D05, 49S05, 35A15, 70G10, 35Q30, 37A50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14240