Importance of Eugenio Beltrami's hydroelectrodynamics

Journal Article · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985 · Int. J. Fusion Energy; (United States)

OSTI ID:6975936

Filipponi, G

As part of a continuing project of bringing the works of Bernhard Riemann and his collaborators directly before the scientific community, we are happy to present translations of two papers by Eugenio Beltrami that were key in the development of hydrodynamics. We have also translated a short portion of Beltrami's attack upon the electrodynamics of James Clerk Maxwell. The first paper develops the work of Hermann Helmholtz (translated in IJFE (Helmholtz 1978)) into a generative treatment of vortices. As the note by Dan Wells in this issue illustrates in connection with his own work, Beltrami's method has proven critical to the treatment of the development of vortices in plasmas, providing a crucial tool for studying what was otherwise dismissed as turbulence. In his introduction to the translations, Dr. Giuseppe Filipponi develops the connection between the discoveries of Beltrami and the Italian tradition of research in hydrodynamics begun by Leonardo da Vinci.

• OSTI ID: 6975936
• Journal Information: Int. J. Fusion Energy; (United States), Vol. 3:3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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