Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows

2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-75214-1
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band 744, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1250 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Provenzale, Antonello

Weiss, Jeffrey B.

Weiss, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geomorphologie, Erosion, Glaziologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Strömungslehre
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Kontinuumsmechanik, Strömungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.