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Author Summer Course on "Transport in Geophysical and Environmental Flows" (2004)

Title Transport and mixing in geophysical flows / J.B. Weiss, A. Provenzale (eds.)
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : illustrations
Series Lecture notes in physics, 0075-8450 ; 744
Lecture notes in physics ; 744. 0075-8450
Contents Theory -- Scalar Decay in Chaotic Mixing -- Transport of Inert and Reactive Particles: Lagrangian Statistics in Turbulent Flow -- Diffusion and Reaction-Diffusion in Steady Flows at Large Péclet Numbers -- An Introduction to Radiative Transfer for Geophysicists -- Coherent Vortices and Tracer Transport -- Experiments and Observations -- Dispersion and Mixing in Quasi-two-dimensional Rotating Flows -- Quantifying Inhomogeneous, Instantaneous, Irreversible Transport Using Passive Tracer Field as a Coordinate -- Lagrangian Statistics from Oceanic and Atmospheric Observations -- The Modulation of Biological Production by Oceanic Mesoscale Turbulence
Summary 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
Notes "Contributions presented during the 2004 Summer Course on 'Transport in Geophysical and Environmental Flows'"--Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Geophysics -- Fluid models.
Geophysics -- Mathematical models
Fluid dynamics.
Physical geography.
Hydrodynamics
physical geography.
Physique.
Fluid dynamics
Geophysics -- Fluid models
Geophysics -- Mathematical models
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Weiss, J. B. (Jeffrey B.)
Provenzale, A. (Antonello)
LC no. 2007938316
ISBN 9783540752158
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