West Poster

Discrete Reduction of Fluids



Matthew West
Control and Dynamical Systems 107-81
California Insitute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~mwest/
mwest@cds.caltech.edu



Abstract:  he Discrete Euler-Poincare and Discrete Lie-Poisson frameworks provide a method to construct integrators for the reduced dynamics of mechanical systems with symmetry. We extend these ideas to multisymplectic fluids, and show how one obtains a class of integrators which can be interpreted as semi-Lagrangian methods for conservative fluid models. The key advance here is a discrete analogue of the particle relabeling symmetry.



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