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Dynamical Systems Approach to Turbulence

By Mogens H. Jensen , Angelo Vulpiani , Tomas Bohr , Giovanni Paladin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780521017947, 9780511599972, 0521475147, 0521017947, 0511599978, 9780521475143
LCC
TA357.5.T87 D88 1998
Open Library ID
OL665312M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9156491 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series
Pages
372\372
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

In recent decades, turbulence has evolved into a very active field of theoretical physics. The origin of this development is the approach to turbulence from the point of view of deterministic dynamical systems, and this book shows how concepts developed for low dimensional chaotic systems are applied to turbulent states. This book centers around a number of important simplified models for turbulent behavior in systems ranging from fluid motion (classical turbulence) to chemical reactions and interfaces in disordered systems. The theory of fractals and multifractals now plays a major role in turbulence research, and turbulent states are being studied as important dynamical states of matter occurring also in systems outside the realm of hydrodynamics. The book contains simplified models of turbulent behavior, notably shell models, coupled map lattices, amplitude equations and interface models.

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