Geometry of fluid motion
Khesin, Boris1
1 Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
Séminaire Équations aux dérivées partielles (Polytechnique) dit aussi "Séminaire Goulaouic-Schwartz" (2002-2003), Exposé no. 10, 10 p.

We survey two problems illustrating geometric-topological and Hamiltonian methods in fluid mechanics: energy relaxation of a magnetic field and conservation laws for ideal fluid motion. More details and results, as well as a guide to the literature on these topics can be found in [3].

Khesin, Boris 1

1 Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada 
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