Stability of rigid body motion using the energy-Casimir method

DOI10.1090/conm/028/751972zbMath0526.70025OpenAlexW1525097275MaRDI QIDQ3040595

Darryl D. Holm, Alan Weinstein, Jerrold E. Marsden, Tudor S. Ratiu

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Fluids and Plasmas: Geometry and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/19419/

zbMATH Keywords

energy-Casimir methodLiapunov stabilitymotion of free rigid body and heavy topsufficient conditions for nonlinear Liapunov stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K20) Free motion of a rigid body (70E15) Hamilton's equations (70H05)

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