Energy-Casimir and Energy-Lagrange Methods in the Study of Nonlinear Symmetric Stability Problems

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 400-411

  Mu, Mu ^a   Vladimirov, V ^b   Wu, Yong Hui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VORTEX FLOW;

ENERGY-CASIMIR METHODS (ECM); ENERGY-LAGRANGE METHODS (ELM); NONLINEAR SYMMETRIC STABILITY PROBLEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 0033077603     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0400:ECAELM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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