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Vortex Structures in a Stratified Fluid offers a systematic treatment of vortex dynamics based on both theoretical analyses and the results of numerous laboratory experiments, with real flows. Using many original photographs and diagrams, the authors provide a theoretical and physical study of various compact vortex structures, such as monopoles, dipoles and quadrupoles, as well as more complex ones. Among the family of vortex structures considered in this book the most remarkable are large-scale dipoles - fundamental elements of vortex flows associated with the term 'two-dimensional turbulence'. The appearance of these structures in initially chaotic flows is of great interest because of their myriad geophysical occurrences. This volume will be of practical interest to researchers in geophysical fluid dynamics, and it will also provide real physical insight and a base for the development of mathematical and experimental skills for postgraduate students specializing in geophysical and applied fluid dynamics.
List of contents
Preface, Introduction and some geophysical examples, Introduction to experimental techniques, Introduction to vortex dynamics, Vortex multipoles, Vortex dipole interactions in a stratified fluid, Empirical models of vortex structures in a stratified fluid, References, Index
About the author
Sergey I. Voropayev, Y.D. Afanasyev
Summary
A fully systematic treatment of the dynamics of vortex structures and their interactions in a viscous density stratified fluid is provided by this book
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"I found it a very useful exposition of ideas which I had known about in otherwise unrelated contexts. The relationship they have brought out between interacting eddies in two-dimensional turbulence flows generated by oscillated bodies is straightforward but not obvious, and it does help to have them treated in such a coherent and logical manner...The neat experimental methods developed to illustrate the flows and make graphic comparisons with theory also make this a visually appealing book which I can recommend to anyone interested in obtaining a clear physical understanding of vortex dynamics."
-Journal of Fluid Mechanics
