“…The variational theory for viscous flow has been caught much attention, and various variational formulations were established for some special cases (Bogner, 2008;Chen et al, 2010;Ecer, 1980;He, 1998;Petrov, 2015;Fei et al, 2013;Jia et al, 2014;Li and Liu, 2013;Tao and Chen, 2013). As early as 1868, Helmholtz proposed a minimum principle for viscous fluids neglecting kinetic effect (Finlayson, 1972), and it was once proved that there exists no variational representation for Navier-Stokes equations (Finlayson, 1972).…”