Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Fluids and Plasmas

by Ilya Prigogine (Editor), W. Horton (Editor), Y. Ichikawa (Editor), G. Zaslavsky (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780883189238
Publisher:	American Inst. of Physics
Publication date:	10/31/1992
Series:	Research Trends in Physics Series
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

Partial Contents: Chaotic Dynamics. Space-Time Chaos, Coherent Structures and Patterns in Extended Systems (L.A. Bunimovich). Linear Chaos (B.V. Chirikov). "Particles" - "Antiparticles" Shastic 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

Editorial Reviews

Proceedings from a conference in La Jolla, California, in February 1991. Topics in this interdisciplinary symposium include linear chaos, Hamiltonian chaos in the anti-integrable limit, quantum chaos, dynamics of coherent structures in wall-bounded turbulence, solutions on a thin vortex filament, plasma transport across a fluctuating magnetic field, and shear Alfven wave propagation in stochastic magnetic fields. Prigogine was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1977 and is famous for his work in chaos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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