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Record Nr.

UNISA996466619603316

Autore

Woyczyński W. A (Wojbor Andrzej), <1943->

Titolo

Burgers-KPZ turbulence : Göttingen lectures / / Wojbor A. Woyczyński

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

3-540-49480-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 1998.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 328 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1700

Classificazione

60H15

76L05

35Q53

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Turbulence - Mathematical models

Burgers equation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Shock waves and the large scale structure (LSS) of the universe -- Hydrodynamic limits, nonlinear diffusions, and propagation of chaos -- Hopf-Cole formula and its asymptotic analysis -- Statistical description, parabolic approximation -- Hyperbolic approximation and inviscid limit -- Forced Burgers turbulence -- Passive tracer transport in Burgers' and related flows -- Fractal Burgers-KPZ models.

Sommario/riassunto

These lecture notes are woven around the subject of Burgers' turbulence/KPZ model of interface growth, a study of the nonlinear parabolic equation with random initial data. The analysis is conducted mostly in the space-time domain, with less attention paid to the frequency-domain picture. However, the bibliography contains a more complete information about other directions in the field which over the last decade enjoyed a vigorous expansion. The notes are addressed to a diverse audience, including mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, fluid dynamicists and engineers, and contain both rigorous and heuristic arguments. Because of the multidisciplinary audience, the notes also include a concise exposition of some classical topics in probability theory, such as Brownian motion, Wiener polynomial chaos, etc.