The Lanczos potential for the Weyl curvature tensor: Existence, wave equation and algorithms

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 453, Issue 1959, 1997, Pages 835-851

  Edgar, S B ^a   Hoglund A ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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FLUID FLOW; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

EID: 0030738936     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1997.0046     Document Type: Article

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