ISSN:
0271-2091
Keywords:
Incompressible flow
;
Clebsch potentials
;
Three-dimensional
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Engineering
;
Engineering General
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
A recent paper by W. Zijl, which reformulated the Navier-Stokes and Boussinesq equations in terms of Clebsch potentials, has an error that greatly reduces the generality of the results. Some other recent efforts to use such potentials in fluid and plasma dynamics are briefly discussed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.1650091010