Helicity and the Călugăreanu invariant

DOI10.1098/rspa.1992.0159zbMath0771.57013OpenAlexW2030537075MaRDI QIDQ4033222

Henry Keith Moffatt, Renzo L. Ricca

Publication date: 16 May 1993

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10281/20227

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