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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827449103321

Titolo

Fluids and plasmas : geometry and dynamics / / Jerrold E. Marsden, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1984]

©1984

ISBN

0-8218-7613-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 28 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

532/.05

Soggetti

Fluid dynamics

Plasma dynamics

Differentiable dynamical systems

Geometry, Differential

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Fluids and Plasmas, Geometry and Dynamics held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, July 17-23, 1983"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

Contents --  Introduction --  Conference Participants --  Part I. Geometric-Analytic Methods --  Stability of Poisson-Hamilton equilibria --  Stability of rigid body motion using the energy-Casimir method --  Stability of planar multifluid plasma equilibria by Arnold's method --  Canonical derivation of the Vlasov-Coulomb noncanonical Poisson structure --  Reduction and Hamiltonian structures on duals of semidirect product Lie algebras --  Gauged Lie-Poisson structures --  The Hamiltonian structure of the BBGKY hierarchy equations --  Particle and bracket formulations of kinetic equations --  Noncanonical Hamiltonian field theory and reduced MHD --  Geometry and guiding center motion --  Lie-transform derivation of the gyrokinetic Hamiltonian system --  Poisson structures for relativistic systems --  Diffeomorphism groups, semidirect products and quantum theory --  Part II. Analytic and Numerical Methods --  Contour dynamics for two dimensional flows --  On the nonlinear stability of circular vortex patches --  Vortex methods for fluid flow in two or three dimensions --  Hamiltonian perturbation theory and water waves --  Results on



existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Vlasov equation --  Remarks on collisionless plasmas --  Toward a new kinetic theory for resonant triads --  A spectral method for external viscous flows --  Forecasting the ocean's weather: numerical models for application to oceanographic data --  Part III. Bifurcation and Dynamical Systems --  Geometry and dynamics in experiments on chaotic systems --  Dimension estimates for attractors --  Solitary waves as fixed points of infinite-dimensional maps in an optical bistable ring cavity --  Hopf bifurcation and the beam-plasma instability --  Some remarks on chaotic particle paths in time-periodic, three-dimensional swirling flows --  A universal transition from quasi-periodicity to chaos --  On the nonpathological behavior of Newton's method --  Successive bifurcations in the interaction of steady state and Hopf bifurcation --  Convection in a rotating fluid layer.