Coherent Vortex Structures in Fluids and Plasmas

✍ Scribed by Anatoli Tur, Vladimir Yanovsky (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph introduces readers to the hydrodynamics of vortex formation, and reviews the last decade of active research in the field, offering a unique focus on research topics at the crossroads of traditional fluids and plasmas.

Vortices are responsible for the process of macroscopic transport of momentum, energy and mass, and are formed as the result of spontaneous self-organization. Playing an important role in nature and technology, localized, coherent vortices are regularly observed in shear flows, submerged jets, afterbody flows and in atmospheric boundary layers, sometimes taking on the form of vortex streets.

In addition, the book addresses a number of open issues, including but not limited to: which singularities are permitted in a 2D Euler equation besides point vortices? Which other, even more complex, localized vortices could be contained in the Euler equation? How do point vortices interact with potential waves?

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Dynamics of Point Vortex Singularities....Pages 15-74
Influence of Potential Waves on Point Vortex Motion....Pages 75-128
Nontrivial Stationary Vortex Configurations....Pages 129-174
Generation of Large-Scale Vortices....Pages 175-253
Vortices in Plasma Hydrodynamics....Pages 255-299
Back Matter....Pages 301-306

✦ Subjects

Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory