Potential-energy minimum as a stability criterion
Abstract
The historical development of the idea of potential-energy minimum as a criterion of the stability of equilibrium of a rotating fluid is reviewed. The work of Lagrange and Dirichlet in this field is emphasized.
- Publication:
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Kiev Izdanie Instituta Matematiki AN USSR
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977KIzIM......200P
- Keywords:
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- Potential Energy;
- Rotary Stability;
- Rotating Liquids;
- Systems Stability;
- Convergence;
- Degrees Of Freedom;
- Hydrodynamics;
- Minima;
- Planetary Rotation;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer