Instabilities in Continuous Media

✍ Scribed by L. Knopoff, V. I. Keilis-Borok, G. Puppi (auth.), L. Knopoff, V. I. Keilis-Borok, G. Puppi (eds.)

Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Year: 1985
Tongue: English
Leaves: 213
Series: Contributions to Current Research in Geophysics
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Introduction....Pages 363-364
On the Dynamics of Rotating Fluids and Planetary Atmospheres: A Summary of some Recent Work....Pages 365-374
Convection-Driven Zonal Flows in the Major Planets....Pages 375-390
The Amplitude of Turbulent Shear Flow....Pages 391-400
A Model for Nonlinear Wave Interactions....Pages 401-415
Nonlinear Diffusion: Self-Similarity and Traveling-Waves....Pages 417-441
Constitutive Relations for Fault Slip and Earthquake Instabilities....Pages 443-475
Patterns of Stress Corrosion: Geometry of the Principal Stresses....Pages 477-494
Crack Fusion as a Model for Repetitive Seismicity....Pages 495-510
Deterministic and Statistical Properties of the Westerlies....Pages 511-562
The Charney—Stern Theorem on Barotropic—Baroclinic Instability....Pages 563-572

✦ Subjects

Science, general

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