Riemannian curvature on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms (motions of fluid) of 2-sphere

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(96)00192-3zbMath0890.53060WikidataQ115339604 ScholiaQ115339604MaRDI QIDQ2364971

Kyo Yoshida

Publication date: 29 January 1997

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

instability; perturbation; incompressible fluid; Riemannian manifold; Euler equation; sectional curvature; geodesic equation; Riemannian curvature tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

76E99: Hydrodynamic stability

76B99: Incompressible inviscid fluids

76A02: Foundations of fluid mechanics

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