https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2012-12159-x
Regular Article
Virial theorem for Onsager vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (IRSAMC), Université de Toulouse, F-31062, Toulouse, France
* e-mail: chavanis@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr
Received:
7
May
2012
Revised:
17
October
2012
Accepted:
16
November
2012
Published online:
21
December
2012
We derive the virial theorem appropriate to two-dimensional point vortices at statistical equilibrium in the microcanonical and canonical ensembles. In an unbounded domain, it relates the angular velocity to the angular momentum and the temperature. Our expression is valid for an arbitrary number of point vortices of possibly different species. In the single-species case, and in the mean field approximation, it reduces to the relation empirically obtained by J.H. Williamson (J. Plasma Phys. 17, 85 (1977)).
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