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Decomposition of solenoidal fields into poloidal fields, toroidal fields and the mean flow. Applications to the boussinesq-equations

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  • Selfadjoint Operator
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Schmitt, B.J., von Wahl, W. (1992). Decomposition of solenoidal fields into poloidal fields, toroidal fields and the mean flow. Applications to the boussinesq-equations. In: Heywood, J.G., Masuda, K., Rautmann, R., Solonnikov, V.A. (eds) The Navier-Stokes Equations II — Theory and Numerical Methods. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1530. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0090349

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