Vortex Dynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Planetary Atmospheres, Hardcover ...

by Chjan C. Lim

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Vortex Dynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Planetary Atmospheres, Hardcover by Lim, Chjan C.; Ding, Xueru; Nebus, Joseph, ISBN 9812839127, ISBN-13 9789812839121, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Reporting the results of four years of research by a team of scientists and students, Lim, Xueru Ding, and Joseph Nebus (all Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US) describe a qualitative theory for the end-states--or statistically-stationary asymptotic flow states-- of the forced-damped rotating-shallow-water equations. They also show how this theory can be applied to analyzing the super-rotation of slowly rotating terrestrial planets and major moons, and the key large-scale features of the gas giants in the solar system. Their topics include barotropic and shallow-water models, phase-transition in energy-relative enstrophy models, extremal free energy in the mean-field theory, and exact closed-form solutions for getting from phase transitions to super-rotation. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• Publisher: World Industries Scientific Publishing Co Pte LTD
• Year: 2009
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9789812839121
• Condition: Fine

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