Hamilton’s principle for quasigeostrophic motion

DOI10.1063/1.869623zbMath1185.76848arXivchao-dyn/9801018OpenAlexW3125337101MaRDI QIDQ5755847

Vladimir Zeitlin, Darryl D. Holm

Publication date: 15 August 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9801018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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