A canonical transformation relating the Lagrangian and Eulerian description of ideal hydrodynamics

W. van Saarloos

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1981, vol. 108, issue 2, 557-566

Abstract: We derive by means of a canonical transformation the variational principle of Seliger and Whitham for the Eulerian description of ideal hydrodynamics from the more familiar variational principle that yields the equations of motion of an ideal fluid in the Lagrangian description.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(81)90149-7

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