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Take an inviscid, incompressible fluid, ignore external forces for the sake of simplicity.

The Lagrangian density is

$$ \mathcal{L} = \frac{\rho}{2} {\vec v}\cdot \vec v $$

I'm trying to solve Euler-Lagrange like so: $$ \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial \vec v} = \partial_\mu \left( \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial(\partial_\mu \vec v)} \right) $$

The RHS is $0$ because $\mathcal{L}$ does not depend on any derivatives of $\vec v$.

The LHS is $\rho \vec v$.

This is nonsense, I was expecting to get the momentum equations for an inviscid incompressible fluid.

Sancol.
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