Relative equilibria of point vortices on the sphere

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 97-135

  Lim, Chjan ^a   Montaldi, James ^b   Roberts, Mark ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT NON LINÉAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SPHERES; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

POINT VORTICES; TIME-REVERSING REFLECTIONAL SYMMETRIES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0035156343     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(00)00167-6     Document Type: Article

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