• Title of article

    Geometric-mechanical origin of global planetary angular momentum dynamics

  • Author/Authors

    van der Toorn، نويسنده , , Ramses، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2012
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    45
  • To page
    51
  • Abstract
    In this paper we shall derive integral angular momentum equations for shallow water dynamics on a rotating planet and in doing so we shall show that these equations are a consequence of the partial spherical symmetry of an appropriate Lagrangian density for this dynamics.
  • Keywords
    Symmetry , Planetary fluid dynamics , Angular Momentum Dynamics , variational principle
  • Journal title
    Journal of Sea Research
  • Serial Year
    2012
  • Journal title
    Journal of Sea Research
  • Record number

    2237074