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Ball‐like structures of the Beltrami flow field
Author(s) -
KwangHua Chu Z.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
zamm ‐ journal of applied mathematics and mechanics / zeitschrift für angewandte mathematik und mechanik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.449
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1521-4001
pISSN - 0044-2267
DOI - 10.1002/zamm.200310161
Subject(s) - ball (mathematics) , classical mechanics , analogy , physics , flow (mathematics) , mechanics , geometry , mathematics , philosophy , linguistics
We derive stationary Beltrami flow fields based on the analogy borrowed from the free Maxwell equations in vacuum. The stationary Beltrami field we obtained is helical and/or ball‐like once it is represented in a suitable frame of reference. Our solutions also illustrate the formation of a ball‐like pattern and the possible splitting (into two).