A novel formulation of point vortex dynamics on the sphere: Geometrical and numerical aspects

Journal of Nonlinear Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-37

  Vankerschaver, Joris ^a   Leok, Melvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hopf fibration; Point vortices; Symplectic integration; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LIE GROUPS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VORTEX FLOW;

FOURTH-ORDER RUNGE-KUTTA; HOPF FIBRATION; LAGRANGIAN FORMULATIONS; MUNTHE-KAAS METHOD; NUMERICAL ASPECTS; POINT VORTICES; SYMPLECTIC INTEGRATION; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

SPHERES;

EID: 84898542487     PISSN: 09388974     EISSN: 14321467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00332-013-9182-5     Document Type: Article

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