TitleRossby Vortices, Spiral Structures, Solitons : Astrophysics and Plasma Physics in Shallow Water Experiments
Author(s)Nezlin, Mikhail V;Snezhkin, Evgenii N
PublicationBerlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993.
DescriptionIX, 223 p. 112 illus : online resource
Abstract NoteThis book can be looked upon in more ways than one. On the one hand, it describes strikingly interesting and lucid hydrodynamic experiments done in the style of the "good old days" when the physicist needed little more than a piece of string and some sealing wax. On the other hand, it demonstrates how a profound physical analogy can help to get a synoptic view on a broad range of nonlinear phenomena involving self-organization of vortical structures in planetary atmo?? spheres and oceans, in galaxies and in plasmas. In particular, this approach has elucidated the nature and the mechanism of such grand phenomena as the Great of galaxies. A number of our Red Spot vortex on Jupiter and the spiral arms predictions concerning the dynamics of spiral galaxies are now being confirmed by astronomical observations stimulated by our experiments. This book is based on the material most of which was accumulated during 1981-88 in close cooperation with our colleagues, experimenters from the Plasma Physics Department of the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute (S. V. Antipov, A. S. Trubnikov, AYu. Rylov, AV. Khutoretsky) and astrophysics theoreticians from the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences (AM. Frid?? man) and from the Volgograd State University (AG. Morozov). To all of them we wish to express our gratitude. Whenever we speak of "our experiments", the participation of the entire team is implied
ISBN,Price9783642881220
Keyword(s)1. Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics 2. ATOMS 3. COMPLEX SYSTEMS 4. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS 5. EBOOK 6. EBOOK - SPRINGER 7. GEOPHYSICS 8. Geophysics/Geodesy 9. PHYSICS 10. SPACE SCIENCES 11. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) 12. STATISTICAL PHYSICS 13. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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