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- Title
Beltrami Fields with Nonconstant Proportionality Factor.
- Authors
Clelland, Jeanne N.; Klotz, Taylor
- Abstract
We consider the question raised by Enciso and Peralta-Salas (Arch Ration Mech Anal 220(1):243–260, 2016): what nonconstant functions f can occur as the proportionality factor for a Beltrami field u on an open subset U ⊂ R 3 ? We also consider the related question: for any such f, how large is the space of associated Beltrami fields? By applying Cartan's method of moving frames and the theory of exterior differential systems, we are able to improve upon the results given in Peralta-Salas (2016). In particular, the answer to the second question depends crucially upon the geometry of the level surfaces of f. We conclude by giving a complete classification of Beltrami fields that possess either a translation symmetry or a rotation symmetry.
- Subjects
EXTERIOR differential systems; SURFACE geometry
- Publication
Archive for Rational Mechanics & Analysis, 2020, Vol 236, Issue 2, p767
- ISSN
0003-9527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00205-019-01481-7