Helmholtz's theorem (redirected from Helmholtz theorem)

Helmholtz's theorem [′helm‚hōlt·səz ‚thir·əm]

(electricity)

Thévenin's theorem

(fluid mechanics)

The theorem that in the isentropic flow of a nonviscous fluid which is not subject to body forces, individual vortices always consist of the same fluid particles.

(mathematics)

The theorem determining a general class of vector fields as being everywhere expressible as the sum of an irrotational vector with a divergence-free vector.