Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows: 744 (Lecture Notes in Physics, 744) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540752145 ISBN 13: 9783540752141

Publisher: Springer, 2007

Synopsis

Transports in fluids can be approached from two complementary perspectives. In the Eulerian view of mixing, the focus is on the concentration field. In the Langrangian view, fluid parcels are followed around as they move with the flow, experiencing chaotic or stochastic motion. This book examines both pictures, presenting a number of theoretical and experimental lectures on various aspects of transport and mixing of active and passive particles in geophysical flows.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540752145
• ISBN 13: 9783540752141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 271
• Editor: Weiss Jeffrey B., Provenzale Antonello