Stream functions for divergence-free vector fields
In 1990, von Wahl and, independently, Borchers and Sohr showed that a divergence-free vector field uu in a 3D bounded domain that is tangential to the boundary can be written as the curl of a vector field vanishing on the boundary of the domain. We extend this result to higher dimension and to Lipsc...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Quarterly of applied mathematics 2021-03, Vol.79 (1), p.163-174 |
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Zusammenfassung: | In 1990, von Wahl and, independently, Borchers and Sohr showed that a divergence-free vector field uu in a 3D bounded domain that is tangential to the boundary can be written as the curl of a vector field vanishing on the boundary of the domain. We extend this result to higher dimension and to Lipschitz boundaries in a form suitable for integration in flat space, showing that uu can be written as the divergence of an antisymmetric matrix field. We also demonstrate how obtaining a kernel for such a matrix field is dual to obtaining a Biot-Savart kernel for the domain. |
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ISSN: | 0033-569X 1552-4485 |
DOI: | 10.1090/qam/1575 |