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Helicity is a global quantity defined as:

dV
In order to calculate the change in helicity, it is necessary to recast the equation for its time derivative in a more useful form. This can be done in the following way.

Kt = -2 E BdV + {(At A)dS




Riley William Crane
Mon Oct 12 02:32:46 CDT 1998