Dynamo and Dynamics, a Mathematical Challenge

Dynamo and Dynamics, a Mathematical Challenge

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  • Author: Pascal Chossat
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9401007888
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 399

This book contains the lectures given at the workshop "Dynamo and dynamics, a mathematical challenge" held in Cargese from August 21 to 26, 2000. The workshop differed from most previous conferences on the dynamo effect in two important respects. First, it was at this international conference that the experimental observation of homogeneous fluid dynamos was first reported. Second, the conference gathered scientists from very different fields, thus showing that thepynamo problem has become an interdisciplinary subject involving not only astrophysicists and geophysicists, but also scientists working in dynamical systems theory, hydrodynamics, and numerical simulation, as well as several groups in experimental physics. This book thus reports important results on various dynamo studies in these different contexts: - Decades after the discovery of the first analytic examples of laminar fluid dynamos, the self-generation of a magnetic field by a flow ofliquid sodium has been reported by the Karlsruhe and Riga groups. Although there were no doubts concerning the self generation by the laminar Roberts-type or Ponomarenko-type flows that were used, these experiments have raised interesting questions about the influence of the turbulent fluctuations on the dynamo threshold and on the saturation level of the magnetic field.


Fluid Dynamics and Dynamos in Astrophysics and Geophysics

Fluid Dynamics and Dynamos in Astrophysics and Geophysics

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  • Author: Andrew M. Soward
  • Publisher: CRC Press
  • ISBN: 9780849333552
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 486

The increasing power of computer resources along with great improvements in observational data in recent years have led to some remarkable and rapid advances in astrophysical fluid dynamics. The subject spans three distinct but overlapping communities whose interests focus on (1) accretion discs and high-energy astrophysics; (2) solar, stellar, and galactic magnetic fields; and (3) the geodynamo, planetary magnetic fields, and associated experiments. This book grew out of a special conference sponsored by the London Mathematical Society with the support of EPSRC that brought together leading researchers in all of these areas to exchange ideas and review the status of the field. The many interesting problems addressed in this volume concern:


Mathematical Aspects of Natural Dynamos

Mathematical Aspects of Natural Dynamos

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  • Author: Emmanuel Dormy
  • Publisher: CRC Press
  • ISBN: 1420055267
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 504

Although the origin of Earth's and other celestial bodies' magnetic fields remains unknown, we do know that the motion of electrically conducting fluids generates and maintains these fields, forming the basis of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and, to a larger extent, dynamo theory. Answering the need for a comprehensive, interdisciplinary introduction to this area, Mathematical Aspects of Natural Dynamos provides a foundation in dynamo theory before moving on to modeling aspects of natural dynamos. Bringing together eminent international contributors, the book first introduces governing equations, outlines the kinematic dynamo theory, covers nonlinear effects, including amplitude saturation and polarity reversals, and discusses fluid dynamics. After establishing this base, the book describes the Earth's magnetic field and the current understanding of its characteristics. Subsequent chapters examine other planets in our solar system and the magnetic field of stars, including the sun. The book also addresses dynamo action on the large scale of galaxies, presents modeling experiments of natural dynamos, and speculates about future research directions. After reading this well-illustrated, thorough, and unified exploration, you will be well prepared to embark on your own journey through this fascinating area of research.


Advances in Nonlinear Dynamos

Advances in Nonlinear Dynamos

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  • Author: Antonio Ferriz-Mas
  • Publisher: CRC Press
  • ISBN: 9780203493137
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

Nonlinear dynamo theory is central to understanding the magnetic structures of planets, stars and galaxies. In chapters contributed by some of the leading scientists in the field, this text explores some of the recent advances in the field. Both kinetic and dynamic approaches to the subject are considered, including fast dynamos, topological methods in dynamo theory, physics of the solar cycle and the fundamentals of mean field dynamo. Advances in Nonlinear Dynamos is ideal for graduate students and researchers in theoretical astrophysics and applied mathematics, particularly those interested in cosmic magnetism and related topics, such as turbulence, convection, and more general nonlinear physics.


Dynamics And Bifurcation Of Patterns In Dissipative Systems

Dynamics And Bifurcation Of Patterns In Dissipative Systems

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  • Author: Iuliana Oprea
  • Publisher: World Scientific
  • ISBN: 9814482099
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 405

Understanding the spontaneous formation and dynamics of spatiotemporal patterns in dissipative nonequilibrium systems is one of the major challenges in nonlinear science. This collection of expository papers and advanced research articles, written by leading experts, provides an overview of the state of the art. The topics include new approaches to the mathematical characterization of spatiotemporal complexity, with special emphasis on the role of symmetry, as well as analysis and experiments of patterns in a remarkable variety of applied fields such as magnetoconvection, liquid crystals, granular media, Faraday waves, multiscale biological patterns, visual hallucinations, and biological pacemakers. The unitary presentations, guiding the reader from basic fundamental concepts to the most recent research results on each of the themes, make the book suitable for a wide audience.


Large-Scale Perturbations of Magnetohydrodynamic Regimes

Large-Scale Perturbations of Magnetohydrodynamic Regimes

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  • Author: Vladislav Zheligovsky
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 3642181694
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 341

New developments for hydrodynamical dynamo theory have been spurred by recent evidence of self-sustained dynamo activity in laboratory experiments with liquid metals. The emphasis in the present volume is on the introduction of powerful mathematical techniques required to tackle modern multiscale analysis of continous systems and there application to a number of realistic model geometries of increasing complexity. This introductory and self-contained research monograph summarizes the theoretical state-of-the-art to which the author has made pioneering contributions.


Chaos

Chaos

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  • Author: Bertrand Duplantier
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 3034806973
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 270

This twelfth volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series presents a complete and interdisciplinary perspective on the concept of Chaos, both in classical mechanics in its deterministic version, and in quantum mechanics. This book expounds some of the most wide ranging questions in science, from uncovering the fingerprints of classical chaotic dynamics in quantum systems, to predicting the fate of our own planetary system. Its seven articles are also highly pedagogical, as befits their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience. Highlights include a complete description by the mathematician É. Ghys of the paradigmatic Lorenz attractor, and of the famed Lorenz butterfly effect as it is understood today, illuminating the fundamental mathematical issues at play with deterministic chaos; a detailed account by the experimentalist S. Fauve of the masterpiece experiment, the von Kármán Sodium or VKS experiment, which established in 2007 the spontaneous generation of a magnetic field in a strongly turbulent flow, including its reversal, a model of Earth’s magnetic field; a simple toy model by the theorist U. Smilansky – the discrete Laplacian on finite d-regular expander graphs – which allows one to grasp the essential ingredients of quantum chaos, including its fundamental link to random matrix theory; a review by the mathematical physicists P. Bourgade and J.P. Keating, which illuminates the fascinating connection between the distribution of zeros of the Riemann ζ-function and the statistics of eigenvalues of random unitary matrices, which could ultimately provide a spectral interpretation for the zeros of the ζ-function, thus a proof of the celebrated Riemann Hypothesis itself; an article by a pioneer of experimental quantum chaos, H-J. Stöckmann, who shows in detail how experiments on the propagation of microwaves in 2D or 3D chaotic cavities beautifully verify theoretical predictions; a thorough presentation by the mathematical physicist S. Nonnenmacher of the “anatomy” of the eigenmodes of quantized chaotic systems, namely of their macroscopic localization properties, as ruled by the Quantum Ergodic theorem, and of the deep mathematical challenge posed by their fluctuations at the microscopic scale; a review, both historical and scientific, by the astronomer J. Laskar on the stability, hence the fate, of the chaotic Solar planetary system we live in, a subject where he made groundbreaking contributions, including the probabilistic estimate of possible planetary collisions. This book should be of broad general interest to both physicists and mathematicians.


Self-Exciting Fluid Dynamos

Self-Exciting Fluid Dynamos

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  • Author: Keith Moffatt
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107065879
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 539

Treats the origin of magnetic fields in planets, stars and galaxies, and the manner of their evolution over time.


Advances in Astronomy

Advances in Astronomy

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  • Author: J. M. T. Thompson
  • Publisher: World Scientific
  • ISBN: 1860945775
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 434

"Derived in part from work originally published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, series A (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 360, 2649-3004, 2002)."--t.p.


Dynamos

Dynamos

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISBN: 0080560539
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 497

Dynamos is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "Dynamos". Provides a pedagogical introduction to topics in Dynamos Addresses each topic from the basis to the most recent developments Covers the lectures by internationally-renowned and leading experts