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  • 2 - Eulerian and Lagrangian Fundamentals

  • George Haller, ETH Zurich
  • Book:
    Transport Barriers and Coherent Structures in Flow Data
    Published online:
    20 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 March 2023, pp 13-59

  • Summary

    Classical continuum mechanics focuses on the deformation field of moving continua. This deformation field is composed of the trajectories of all material elements, labeled by their initial positions. This initial-condition-based, material description is what we mean here by the Lagrangian description of a fluid motion. In contrast to typical solid-body deformations, however, fluid deformation may be orders of magnitude larger than the net displacement of the total fluid mass. The difficulty of tracking individual fluid elements has traditionally shifted the focus in fluid mechanics from individual trajectories to the instantaneous velocity field and quantities derived from it. These quantities constitutethe Eulerian description of fluids. This chapter surveys the fundamentals of both the Lagrangian and the Eulerian approaches. We also cover notions and results from differential equations and dynamical systems theory that are typically omitted from fluid mechanics textbooks, yet are heavily used in later chapters ofthis book.