Hamiltonian description of stratified fluid dynamics

DOI10.1063/1.863981zbMath0525.76019MaRDI QIDQ3038841

Frank S. Henyey

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863981

zbMATH Keywords

Eulerian coordinates; Lin constraints; couplings between integral waves and vertical vorticity; motivated Legendre transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

70H05: Hamilton's equations

76B55: Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

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