On Complex-Lamellar Motion of a Prim Gas

An intrinsic formulation of Prim's canonical equations of gas dynamics is employed to establish a generalization of Crocco's theorem to complex-lamellar motion. This new result is then employed to establish the existence of a Heisenberg spin-type equation in such motion. The optimal coordinate systems in the generalized Lagrangian method which are known to exist only in complex-lamellar motion are then shown by intrinsic geometric methods to correspond to a marching direction along geodesics on generalized Bernoulli surfaces.