Conservation Laws for Non-Potential Operators

Antonio Marmo de Oliveira ITA

Vera Lia Marcondes Criscuolo de Almeida Unesp

Abstract
The aim of this work is to study the conservation laws of
continuous means mechanics and also to extend the
Hamiltonian method for these kind of systems in order to valid
for non-potentialoperators through variational approach.
Besides illustrating with various examples of mechanical
applications we also introduce in this work the new technique in
order to treat such problems as the non-potential problem.
Keywords: Conservation Laws, Non-Potential Operators, Hamilton's
Method.

Introduction
Nowadays the variational principles are used mainly in the following contexts:

i)

obtaining the differential equations for a physical

problem with its corresponding boundary conditions;

ii) the study of the symmetry and conservation laws under infinitesimal
transformation groups;

iii) it proves that a given boundary problem has solution

(that is, demonstration of the existence solution for nonlinear equations);

iv) obtaining solutions of linear and non-linear problems using direct

methods of variational calculus
The use of variational principles in cases (iii) and (iv) leads to the so-called
"inverse problem of the calculation of variations", that is, the existence and
formulation of a functional one, in which the variation, once disappeared,
supplies the boundary problem in consideration.
Historically the inverse problem of the calculation of variations is related to the
idea of finding a potential for a