Rossby Vortices, Spiral Structures, Solitons: Astrophysics and Plasma Physics in Shallow Water ExperimentsThis 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Common Features | 31 |
Physical Basis for the Experimental Investigation | 43 |
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| Title | Rossby Vortices, Spiral Structures, Solitons: Astrophysics and Plasma Physics in Shallow Water Experiments Springer Series in Nonlinear Dynamics |
| Authors | Mikhail V. Nezlin, Evgeny Snezhkin |
| Translated by | A. Dobroslavsky, A. Pletnev |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jan 27, 2011 |
| ISBN | 3540501150, 9783540501152 |
| Length | 223 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Physics / Astrophysics Science / Physics / Atomic & Molecular Science / Physics / General Science / Physics / Geophysics Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics |
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