Chaos, Kinetics and Nonlinear Dynamics in Fluids and Plasmas: Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Carry-Le Rouet, France, 16–21 June 1997

Dmitry Treschev (auth.), Sadruddin Benkadda, George M. Zaslavsky (eds.)3540646353, 9783540646358

Over the last few years it has become apparent that fluid turbulence shares many common features with plasma turbulence, such as coherent structures and self-organization phenomena, passive scalar transport and anomalous diffusion. This book gathers very high level, current papers on these subjects. It is intended for scientists and researchers, lecturers and graduate students because of the review style of the papers.

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Table of contents :
Dynamics in a neigborhood of separatrices of an area-preserving map….Pages 1-15
On smooth Hamiltonian flows limited to ergodic billiards….Pages 17-50
Strong variation of global-transport properties in chaotic ensembles….Pages 51-58
Sticky orbits of chaotic Hamiltonian dynamics….Pages 59-82
Turbulence: Beyond phenomenology….Pages 83-143
Forced and decaying 2D turbulence: Experimental study….Pages 145-169
Anomalous diffusion in quasi-geostrophic flow….Pages 171-197
Chaotic dynamics of passive particles in three-vortex system: Dynamical analysis….Pages 199-240
Tokamap: A model of a partially stochastic toroidal magnetic field….Pages 241-261
Lagrangian chaos and the fast kinematic dynamo problem….Pages 263-274
Turbulence scaling laws in fusion plasmas….Pages 275-285
Bifurcation in first-order fermi acceleration and the origin of cosmic rays….Pages 287-301
Dynamical aspects of photon acceleration….Pages 303-310
Enhanced velocity diffusion in slow-growing 1-D langmuir turbulence….Pages 311-336
Statistical mechanics of a self gravitating gas….Pages 337-351
The arising and evolution of the passive tracer clusters in compressible random media….Pages 353-371
Anomalous diffusion in the strong scattering limit: A Lévy walk approach….Pages 373-393
On the equilibrium distribution of like-signed vortices in two dimensions….Pages 395-401
Nonuniversality of transport for the standard map….Pages 403-438