Structural classification and stability of divergence-free vector fields

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 171, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 107-126

  Ma, Tian ^a   Wang, Shouhong ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergence free vector fields; Fluid dynamics; Manifolds with boundary; Ocean atmosphere dynamics; Poincar Bendixson theorem; Structural classifications; Structural stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036776640     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00587-0     Document Type: Article

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