Chaos, Kinetics and Nonlinear Dynamics in Fluids and Plasmas Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Carry-Le Rouet, France, 16-21 June 1997 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Benkadda, Sadruddin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zaslavsky, George M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 511
• Subjects: Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Fluids.; Thermodynamics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Astrophysics.; Complex Systems.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

Over the last few years it has become apparent that fluid turbulence shares many common features with plasma turbulence, such as coherent structures and self-organization phenomena, passive scalar transport and anomalous diffusion. This book gathers very high level, current papers on these subjects....

Table of Contents:

• Dynamics in a neigborhood of separatrices of an area-preserving map
• On smooth Hamiltonian flows limited to ergodic billiards
• Strong variation of global-transport properties in chaotic ensembles
• Sticky orbits of chaotic Hamiltonian dynamics
• Turbulence: Beyond phenomenology
• Forced and decaying 2D turbulence: Experimental study
• Anomalous diffusion in quasi-geostrophic flow
• Chaotic dynamics of passive particles in three-vortex system: Dynamical analysis
• Tokamap: A model of a partially stochastic toroidal magnetic field
• Lagrangian chaos and the fast kinematic dynamo problem
• Turbulence scaling laws in fusion plasmas
• Bifurcation in first-order fermi acceleration and the origin of cosmic rays
• Dynamical aspects of photon acceleration
• Enhanced velocity diffusion in slow-growing 1-D langmuir turbulence
• Statistical mechanics of a self gravitating gas
• The arising and evolution of the passive tracer clusters in compressible random media
• Anomalous diffusion in the strong scattering limit: A Lévy walk approach
• On the equilibrium distribution of like-signed vortices in two dimensions
• Nonuniversality of transport for the standard map.