%0 Journal Article %T Beltrami States for Compressible Barotropic Flows %A B. K. Shivamoggi %A G. J. F. van Heijst %J Physics %D 2007 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/j.physleta.2008.07.017 %X Beltrami states for compressible barotropic flows are deduced by minimizing the total kinetic energy while keeping the total helicity constant. A Hamiltonian basis for these Beltrami states is also sketched. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0013v2