ENGLISH

Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows: Creators of Modern Physics

By J.-L. Thiffeault (auth.) , Jeffrey B. Weiss , Antonello Provenzale (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2008
ISBN
3540752145, 9783540752141, 9783540752158
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-75215-8
ISSN
0075-8450
LCC
QC809.F5 S86 2008
Open Library ID
OL16655468M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2074547 bytes)
Series
Lecture notes in physics 744
Edition
1
Pages
262\265
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Geophysics/Geodesy;Fluids;Meteorology/Climatology;

Description

This volume collects a number of theoretical and experimental lectures on various aspects of transport and mixing of active and passive particles in geophysical flows. Transports in fluids can be approached from two complementary perspectives: in the Eulerian view of mixing, the focus is on the concentration field - advection stetches and folds the concentration field and sharpens the gradients, while diffusion smoothes the field. In the Langrangian view, fluid parcels are followed around as they move with the flow, experiencing chaotic or stochastic motion. Both pictures are considered in the present lectures, with passive particles carried freely by the flow and reactive particles, where chemically or biologically induced reactions change the character of the particles.

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