On the hurricane collective molecular dynamics

Abstract

We study the molecular dynamics underlying the formation and the evolution of hurricanes. The giant global structure of hurricanes cannot be solely the results of random molecular kinematics. We show that the non-stationary, topologically non-trivial hurricane behavior is the manifestation of the collective dynamics at the molecular level. This is described in terms of spontaneous breakdown of the rotational symmetry of the water molecule electrical dipoles. The long range molecular correlations generated as a consequence of the spontaneous breakdown of symmetry are responsible of the large scale collective motion resulting in the hurricane structure. The critical non-stationary dynamics is analyzed in terms of the non-stationary time dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation leading to the vortex equation. Phase transition, criticality, temperature dependence, energy exchanges and entropy are studied. Energy storage and dissipation processes in the coherent state dynamics are analyzed. Finally the self-similar fractal structure of the hurricane is shown to be the manifestation of the coherence of the collective molecular dynamics.