Call number:
AWI A15-05-0034
;
PIK N 450-99-0434
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: 1 Fundamentals. - 1. Eulerian and Lagrangian Descriptions. - 2. Mass Conservation. - 3. Functionals and Variational Principles. - 4. Hamilton's Principle for Point Masses. - 5.Hamilton's Principle for a Barotropic Fluid. - 6. Nonhomentropic Flow. - 7. Variable Composition. - 8. Equations of Motion for an Ideal Fluid. - 9. The Method of Averaging. - 10. Momentum Equation by the Method of Averaging. - 11. An Example of Kinetic Theory. - 12. Thermodynamic Constraints on Molecular Diffusion. - 13. Macroscopic Averages of the Equations of Motion. - 14. Stirring and Mixing. - 15. Static Stability. - 16. Potential Density and Potential Temperature. - 17. The Equation of State for Seawater. - 18. Statistical Mechanics: The Idea lGas. - 2 Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. - 1. Equations Of Motion in Rotating Coordinates. - 2. Geostrophic, Hydrostatic Flow. - 3. The Shallow-water Equations. - 4. Potential Vorticity. - 5. The Quasigeostrophic Equation. - 6. A Second Look at the Quasigeostrophic Equation. - 7. Plane-wave Solutions of the Linear Equations. - 8. A Practical Benefit Of Filtering Out Inertia-gravity Waves. - 9. Geostrophic Adjustment. - 10. A Third Look at the Quasigeostrophic Equation. - 11. Rigid-lid Approximation. - 12. Two-layer Equations. - 13. Two-layer Rossby Waves. - 14. Available Potential Energy. - 15. Baroclinic Instability. - 16. Primitive Equations for the Ocean. - 17. Primitive Equations for the Atmosphere. - 18. Primitive Equations in Isentropic Coordinates. - 19. Quasigeostrophic Equations for Continuously Stratified Flow. - 20. Two-level Quasigeostrophic Equations. - 21. Quasigeostrophic Flow over Topography. - 3 Noninertial Theory of Ocean Circulation. - 1. Overview. - 2. Rotating Sector Models. - 3. Boundary-layer Methods. - 4. Theory of the Depth-averaged Circulation. - 5. Ekman Layers. - 6. A Second Look at Ekman Layers. - 7. Spin-up in the Laboratory. - 8. Simplified Inertia-less Equations. - 9. Linear Solutions of the Simplified Equations. - 10. The Case of Homogeneous Fluid. - 11. The Case of Stratified Fluid. - 12. Spin-up in the Ocean. - 13. The Effect Of Bottom Topography. - 14. Stratified Flow over Bottom Topography. - 15. A Nonlinear Model. - 16. The Thermocline. - 4 Vorticity and Turbulence. - 1. The Vorticity Equation. - 2. Ertel's Theorem. - 3. A Deeper Look at Potential Vorticity. - 4. Alternative Statements of the Vorticity Law. - 5. Turbulence. - 6. Kolmogorov's Theory. - 7. Intermittency and the Beta-model. - 8. Two-dimensional Turbulence. - 9. More Two-dimensional Turbulence. - 10. Energy Transfer in Two and Three Dimensions. - 5 Statistical Fluid Dynamics. - 1. The Closure Problem of Turbulence. - 2. The Eddy-damped Markovian Model. - 3. Stochastic Model Representation. - 4. Entropy. - 5. The Entropy Principle. - 6. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. - 7. The Meaning of Absolute Equilibrium. - 6 Geostrophic Turbulence. - 1. Quasigeostrophic Flow over Topography. - 2. The Statistical Mechanics of Flow over Topography. - 3. Flow on the Beta-plane. - 4. Stratified Quasigeostrophic Flow. - 5. Two-layer Turbulence. - 7 Hamiltonian Fluid Dynamics. - 1. Symmetry and Conservation Laws. - 2. The Particle-relabeling Symmetry Property. - 3. Sound Waves in One Dimension: The Conservation of Wave Action. - 4. Sound Waves in One Dimension: The Equations for the Mean Flow. - 5. Sound Waves in Three Dimensions: Particle-relabeling and Nonacceleration. - 6. Approximations and Constraints. - 7. The Canonical Equations. - 8. Eulerian Forms of Hamilton's Principle. - 9. The Geometrical View of Dynamics. - 10. Noncanonical Hamiltonian Dynamics. - 11. Poisson Brackets for Fluids. - 12. Pseudoenergy, Stability, and Available Energy. - 13. Dynamical Approximations: The Semigeostrophic Equations. - References. - Index.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XIII, 378 S.
,
graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0195108086
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
AWI Library
Branch Library:
PIK Library
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