Frontiers In Turbulence And Coherent Structures - Proceedings Of The Cosnet/csiro Workshop On Turbulence And Coherent Structures In Fluids, Plasmas And Nonlinear Media

by Jim Denier (Editor), Jorgen Frederiksen (Editor)

Overview

This book is based on the proceedings of the COSNet/CSIRO Workshop on Turbulence and Coherent Structures held at the Australian National University in Canberra in January 2006.It codifies recent developments in our understanding of the dynamics and statistical dynamics of turbulence and coherent structures in fluid mechanics, atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, plasma physics, and dynamical systems theory. It brings together articles by internationally acclaimed researchers from around the world including Dijkstra (Utrecht), Holmes (Princeton), Jimenez (UPM and Stanford), Krommes (Princeton), McComb (Edinburgh), Chong (Melbourne), Dewar (ANU), Watmuff (RMIT) and Frederiksen (CSIRO).The book will prove a useful resource for researchers as well as providing an excellent reference for graduate students working in this frontier area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812703934
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/04/2007
Series:	World Scientific Lecture Notes In Complex Systems , #6
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Preface     v
Dynamical systems, stability, and chaos   R. Ball   P. Holmes     1
Instability theory and predictability of atmospheric disturbances   J. S. Frederiksen     29
Multiple equilibria and atmospheric blocking   M. J. Zidikheri   J. S. Frederiksen   T. J. O'Kane     59
Coherent patterns of interannual variability of the atmospheric circulation: the role of intraseasonal variability   C. S. Frederiksen   X. Zheng     87
Regimes of the wind-driven ocean flows   H. A. Dijkstra     121
Nonlinear resonance and chaos in an ocean model   A. Kiss     149
Low frequency ocean variability: feedbacks between eddies and the mean flow   A. McC. Hogg   W. K. Dewar   P. D. Killworth   J. R. Blundell     171
Periodic motion versus turbulent motion: scaling laws, bursting and Lyapunov spectra   L. van Veen   S. Kida   G. Kawahara     187
Maximum entropy N-particle Lagrangian clusters in turbulence and application to scalar fields   M. S. Borgas     203
A review of recent investigations into high Reynolds number wall-turbulence   J. P. Monty   M. S. Chong     227
What are we learning from simulating wallturbulence?   J. Jimenez     247
Coherent structures generated by a synthetic jet   J. H. Watmuff     261
Two-point turbulence closures revisited   W. D. McComb     281
Turbulence closures and subgrid-scale parameterizations   J. S. Frederiksen   T. J. O'Kane     315
Statistical dynamical methods of ensemble prediction and data assimilation during blocking   T. J. O'Kane   J. S. Frederiksen     355
Distilled turbulence. A reduced model for confinement transitions in magnetic fusion plasmas   R. Ball     395
Zonal flow generation by modulational instability   R. L. Dewar   R. F. Abdullatif     415
Nonlinear simulation of drift wave turbulence   R. Numata   R. Ball   R. L. Dewar     431
The transition to ion-temperature-gradient-driven plasma turbulence   J. A. Krommes     443
Spectral transfer analysis in plasma turbulence studies   H. Xia   M. G. Shats     457
Coherent structures in toroidal electron plasmas: simulation and experiments   R. Ganesh   S. Pahari     471