Turbulence in rotating, stratified and electrically conducting fluids / P.A. Davidson, University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, P. A. (Peter Alan), 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turbulence.

Magnetohydrodynamics.

Rotating masses of fluid.

Stratified flow.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 681 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Turbulence in Rotating, Stratified & Electrically Conducting Fluids

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There are two recurring themes in astrophysical and geophysical fluid mechanics: waves and turbulence. This book investigates how turbulence responds to rotation, stratification or magnetic fields, identifying common themes, where they exist, as well as the essential differences which inevitably arise between different classes of flow. The discussion is developed from first principles, making the book suitable for graduate students as well as professional researchers. The author focuses first on the fundamentals and then progresses to such topics as the atmospheric boundary layer, turbulence in the upper atmosphere, turbulence in the core of the earth, zonal winds in the giant planets, turbulence within the interior of the sun, the solar wind, and turbulent flows in accretion discs. The book will appeal to engineers, geophysicists, astrophysicists and applied mathematicians who are interested in naturally occurring turbulent flows.

Contents:

1. The interplay of waves and turbulence: a preview

2. Elementary fluid dynamics

3. Motion in a rotating fluid

4. Motion in a stratified fluid

5. The equations of electrodynamics

6. Motion in a conducting fluid: magnetohydrodynamics

7. Instabilities and transition to turbulence

8. Elementary properties of turbulence

9. The language of turbulence: kinematics and statistics

10. Hydrodynamic turbulence I: classical theories

11. Hydrodynamic turbulence II: steps towards rotating, stratified and MHD turbulence

12. Rapidly rotating turbulence

13. Towards geophysics: shallow-water, rapidly rotating turbulence

14. Homogeneous stratified turbulence

15. Stratified shear flows and the atmoshperic boundary layer

16. MHD turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number

17. Turbulence in the core of the Earth: the geodynamo

18. MHD turbulence at high magnetic Reynolds number

19. Turbulent astrophysical flows.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89214-2

1-107-42424-0

1-107-42196-9

1-107-41927-1

1-107-41661-2

1-107-42048-2

1-139-20867-5

1-107-41796-1

OCLC:

858903129