Variational Principle for Two-Dimensional Incompressible Hydrodynamics and Quasigeostrophic Flows
- 26 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 47 (17), 1181-1183
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.1181
Abstract
A new variational principle is derived through the construction of the action in terms of a new set of canonical coordinates. The main advantage of this set of coordinates is that they contain exclusively information concerning the Eulerian description of the flow.Keywords
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