Classical and Quantum Burgers Fluids: A Challenge for Group Analysis

• Main Author: Philip Broadbridge
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2015-10-01
• Series: Symmetry
• Subjects: Burgers equation; integrability; Schrödinger equation; Madelung fluid
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/7/4/1803

The most general second order irrotational vector field evolution equation is constructed, that can be transformed to a single equation for the Cole–Hopf potential. The exact solution to the radial Burgers equation, with constant mass influx through a spherical supply surface, is constructed. The complex linear Schrödinger equation is equivalent to an integrable system of two coupled real vector equations of Burgers type. The first velocity field is the particle current divided by particle probability density. The second vector field gives a complex valued correction to the velocity that results in the correct quantum mechanical correction to the kinetic energy density of the Madelung fluid. It is proposed how to use symmetry analysis to systematically search for other constrained potential systems that generate a closed system of vector component evolution equations with constraints other than irrotationality.