Lectures on topological fluid mechanics : lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 2-10, 2001 / Mitchell A. Berger ... [et al.] ; editor: Renzo L. Ricca.
"Fondazione CIME." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Braids and knots / Patrick D. Bangert -- Topological quantities: calculating winding, writhing, linking, and higher order invariants / Mitchell A. Berger -- Tangles, rational knots and DNA / Louis A. Kauffman and Sofia Lambropoulou -- The group and Hamiltonian descriptions of hydrodynamical systems / Boris Khesin -- Singularities in fluid dynamics and their resolution / H.K. Moffatt -- Structural complexity and dynamical systems / Renzo L. Ricca -- Random knotting: theorems, simulations and applications / De Witt Sumners.
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