The three-dimensional Euler equations: Where do we stand?

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 237, Issue 14-17, 2008, Pages 1894-1904

  Gibbon, J D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hessian; Quaternions; Singularities; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS; VORTICITY;

FLUID PARTICLES; HESSIAN; LAGRANGIAN EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUATERNIONS; SINGULARITIES; SINGULARITY FORMATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL EULER EQUATIONS;

EULER EQUATIONS;

EID: 47049089302     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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