Chaotic flows. Correlation effects, transport, and structures. (Q533292): Difference between revisions

As pointed out by the author himself, the main purpose is to provide a short review of the various ideas and theories which are presently in use to investigate the basic mechanisms of transport phenomena in chaotic flows. It comprises nineteen chapters distributed in eight parts, namely: (1) an introduction to diffusion and correlations, (2) an introduction to the Lagrangian description of chaotic flows, (3) a discussion on some phenomenogical models of turbulent transport, (4) a review of fractals related to anomalous transport, (5) the use of the percolation approach to analyze anomalous transport, (6) isotropic turbulence and scaling, (7) an overview of convection and scaling, and (8) structures and complex flow topology. The book is a physics book and you can fruitfully read it even if you have only an advanced course of calculus. The reviewer has noticed the numerous examples which involve fractional derivatives in the sense of Liouville (or Riemann-Liouville). These examples are not written by merely formally substituting fractional derivative from derivatives in the classical equations, but instead, they are carefully physically derived, and as a result, one comes across fractional derivatives.