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Record Nr.

UNISA996466710703316

Titolo

Transport and mixing in geophysical flows / / edited by J.B. Weiss, A. Provenzale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; New York : , : Springer, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

3-540-75215-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 262 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 744

Disciplina

551.01532051

Soggetti

Fluid dynamics

Geophysics - Fluid models

Geophysics - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Contributions presented during the 2004 Summer Course on 'Transport in Geophysical and Environmental Flows'"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.