Point vortex equilibria and optimal packings of circles on a sphere

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

Volumn 467, Issue 2129, 2011, Pages 1468-1490

  Newton, Paul K ^a   Sakajo, Takashi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Icosahedral symmetry; Point vortex equilibria; Shannon entropy; Singular value decomposition; Tammes problem

Indexed keywords

ICOSAHEDRAL SYMMETRY; POINT VORTEX EQUILIBRIA; SHANNON ENTROPY; SINGULAR VALUES; TAMMES PROBLEM;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; LINEAR ALGEBRA; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SPHERES; VORTEX FLOW;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79957523490     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0368     Document Type: Article

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