Topological aspects of the dynamics of fluids and plasmas /

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Imprint:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1992.
Description:xii, 606 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:NATO ASI series. Series E., Applied sciences ; vol. 218
NATO ASI series. Series E, Applied sciences no. 218.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1388939
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Other authors / contributors:Moffatt, H. K. (Henry Keith), 1935-
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division
University of California, Santa Barbara. Institute for Theoretical Physics
NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Topological Aspects of the Dynamics of Fluids and Plasmas (1991 : University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN:0792319001 (hb : acid-free paper)
Notes:"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
"Proceedings of the program of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.A. and of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Topological Aspects of the Dynamics of Fluids and Plasmas, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.A., November 1-5, 1991"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Relaxation Under Topological Constraints / H. K. Moffatt
  • Knot Theory, Jones' Polynomials, Invariants of 3-Manifolds, and the Topological Theory of Fluid Dynamics / Kenneth C. Millett
  • Topology of Knots / Martin Scharlemann
  • Stretching and Alignment in General Flow Fields: Classical Trajectories from Reynolds Number Zero to Infinity / M. Tabor
  • Fast Dynamo Theory / S. Childress
  • Relaxation and Topology in Plasma Experiments / J. B. Taylor
  • Taylor's Relaxation in an Unbounded Domain of Space / J. J. Aly
  • Forge-Free Magnetic Fields with Constant Alpha / S. I. Vainshtein
  • Minimum Energy Magnetic Fields with Toroidal Topology / A. Y. K. Chui and H. K. Moffatt
  • Research Announcement on the "Energy" of Knots / Michael H. Freedman and Zheng-Xu He
  • The Helicity of a Knotted Vortex Filament / R. L. Ricca and H. K. Moffatt
  • A Hierarchy of Linking Integrals / N. W. Evans and M. A. Berger
  • Borromeanism and Bordism / Peter Akhmetev and Alexander Ruzmaikin
  • Topology of Steady Fluid Flows / Viktor L. Ginzburg and Boris Khesin
  • Extremal Properties and Hamiltonian Structure of the Euler Equations / T. G. Shepherd
  • Blow Up in Axisymmetric Euler Flows / A. Pumir and E. D. Siggia
  • Is There a Finite-Time Singularity in Axisymmetric Euler Flows? / Xiaogang Wang and A. Bhattacharjee
  • Evidence for a Singularity of the Three-dimensional Incompressible Euler Equations / R. M. Kerr
  • Singularity Formation on Vortex Sheets: The Raleigh-Taylor Problem / M. S. Siegel
  • 2D Turbulence: New Results for [actual symbol not reproducible] / David C. Dritschel
  • On Vortex Reconnection and Turbulence / Olus N. Boratav, Richard B. Pelz and Norman J. Zabusky
  • New Aspects of Vortex Dynamics: Helical Waves, Core Dynamics, Viscous Helicity Generation, and Interaction with Turbulence / Fazle Hussain and Mogens V. Melander
  • Intermittency Growth in 3D Turbulence / Y. Kimura
  • Dynamical Mechanisms for Intermittency Effects in Fully Developed Turbulence / Zhen-Su She
  • The Multispiral Model of Turbulence and Intermittency / J. C. Vassilicos
  • Measurements of Local Scaling of Turbulent Velocity Fields at High Reynolds Numbers / G. M. Zaslavsky, A. A. Chernikov, A. A. Praskovsky, M. Yu. Karyakin and D. A. Usikov
  • On the Determination of Universal Multifractal Parameters in Turbulence / D. Lavallee, S. Lovejoy, D. Schertzer and F. Schmitt
  • Anomolous Transport and Fractal Kinetics / G. M. Zaslavsky
  • Kinematical Instability and Line-stretching in Relation to the Geodesics of Fluid Motion / T. Kambe, F. Nakamura and Y. Hattori
  • The Behavior of Active and Passive Particles in a Chaotic Flow / M. D. Dahleh
  • Chaos Associated with Fluid Inertia / K. Bajer and H. K. Moffatt
  • Instability Criteria in Fluid Dynamics / Susan Friedlander and Misha M. Vishik
  • Localized Instabilities in Fluids / Alexander Lifschitz and Eliezer Hameiri
  • Kinematic Fast Dynamo Action in a Time-Periodic Chaotic Flow / I. Klapper
  • An Exact Turbulent Closure for the Hydromagnetic Dynamo / Hubert H. Shen.