Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Fluids and Plasmas

ISBN-13: 9780883189238 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 448 str.

I. Prigogine; Y. Ichikawa; G. M. Zaslavskii

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Market: Students and researchers in chaos, plasma physics, and fluid transport. This superb collection of invited papers offers an excellent overview of the current status and future trends in chaotic dynamics, plasma and fluid physics, nonlinear phenomena and chaos, and transport and turbulence studies.

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Partial Contents: Chaotic Dynamics. Space-Time Chaos, Coherent Structures and Patterns in Extended Systems (L.A. Bunimovich). Linear Chaos (B.V. Chirikov). "Particles" - "Antiparticles" Stochastic Interaction of Localized States of Nonlinear Fields (K.A. Gorshkov et al.). Application of a Monte Carlo Method to the Lagrangian Renormalized Approximation (Y. Kaneda). Hamiltonian Chaos in the Anti- Integrable Limit (L. Michel et al.). Transport in Fluids. Dynamics of Coherent Structures in Wall-Bounded Turbulence (K.S. Ball et al.). Chaotic Advection in a Complex Annular Geometry (D. Barkley and I.G. Kevrekidis). Hamiltonian Chaos and Transport in Quasigeostrophic Flows (D. del-Castillo-Negrette and P.J. Morrison). Oceans as Statistical Dynamical System: Unprejudiced Circulation (G. Holloway). Solitons on a Thin Vortex Filament (Y.H. Ichikawa et al.). Spatiotemporal Chaos in the Nonlinear Three Wave Interaction (C.C. Chow et al.). On the Trapping Condition for Planetary Vortex Structures (W. Horton and V. Petviashvili). Drift Wave Turbulence and Vortices in 3D Sheared Magnetic Fields (W. Horton et al.). Plasma Transport across a Fluctuating Magnetic Field (G. Laval). Effectively Nonergodic Behavior