Non-Linear Instabilities in Plasmas and Hydrodynamics

By: S.S Moiseev, V.N Oraevsky, V.G Pungin

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Hardcover | 1 January 1999 | Edition Number 1

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For the first time in a single book, Non-Linear Instabilities in Plasmas and Hydrodynamics presents the underlying physics of fast secondary instabilities. This exceptionally well-written, introductory book discusses the basic ideas of the physics of secondary or induced, nonlinear instabilities in wave-sustaining media. The authors, world-renowned experts in the field, have brought together the results of papers scattered throughout the literature to explain subjects as diverse as fluctuation chaos, wave-turbulent instabilities, vortex dynamos, beam-plasma interactions, plasma confinement, and the origins of typhoons in the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic fields in galaxies. Paving the way for new and exciting research in the future, this broad, interdisciplinary book enables a wide range of physicists to apply the concepts discussed to obtain new results in plasma physics, space physics, hydrodynamics, and geophysics.

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"The present book is of large interest for theoreticians working in the fields of plasma kinetics and magnetohydrodynamics and their applications to astrophysics and geophysics. It should not be missing in any astrophysical and geophysicsl library." Astronomische Nachtrichten esent book is of large interest for theoreticians working in the fields of plasma kinetics and magnetohydrodynamics and their applications to astrophysics and geophysics. It should not be missing in any astrophysical and geophysicsl library." Astronomische Nachtrichten

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Preface	p. ix
Direct nonlinear instabilities	p. 1
Parametric decay instability	p. 1
Decay instabilities in media with wave-modulated phase velocity; qualitative theory and principal features of PDI	p. 2
PDI of magnetohydrodynamic waves (quantitative theory)	p. 7
Modulation instability	p. 14
Explosive instability of negative-energy waves	p. 15
Induced instabilities, the symmetry and the evolution of non-equilibrium systems	p. 20
Systems with multiparametric non-equilibrium	p. 20
Group methods of analyzing secondary quasi-stationary states	p. 22
Introduction	p. 22
Scaling transformation group	p. 23
Supersymmetry group	p. 26
Effective collision frequencies in turbulent media	p. 30
Induced drift instabilities	p. 32
External noise and stability of plasmas	p. 36
Introduction	p. 36
Fluctuational chaos	p. 38
Universal noise-induced plasma instability and accelerated fluctuational dynamics in the vicinity of a point of instability	p. 41
Anomalous diffusion of particles	p. 51
Fluctuations of transfer coefficients in the plasma and in hydrodynamics	p. 54
Non-standard evolution of turbulent media	p. 57
Introduction	p. 57
Drift instability cascade and energy transfer in ionospheric turbulence	p. 58
Wave-turbulent instability	p. 67
The helical mechanism of large-scale structure generation in continuous media	p. 83
Introduction	p. 83
Helical structures and helical mechanisms of generation in hydrodynamics	p. 84
On the role of helicity, on the similarity and differences between the magnetic and vortex dynamo in turbulent media	p. 84
Generation of large-scale helical vortices in convective media	p. 87
Helical mechanism of generation of large-scale structures in non-convective hydrodynamic media	p. 90
Hydrodynamic [alpha]-effect in compressible media	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
Qualitative discussion	p. 94
Closure of averaged equation	p. 98
[alpha] as a function of compressibility coefficient: limiting cases	p. 100
Large-scale instability	p. 102
Discussion	p. 103
Large-scale vortical instability and convection: further progress	p. 105
Equation of vortical instability due to convective turbulence and Coriolis force	p. 105
Rayleigh-Benar convection in turbulent fluid at very large Reynolds numbers	p. 112
Reverse energy cascade in uniform turbulent shear flow	p. 117
Introduction	p. 117
Formulation of the problem. Basic equations. Homogeneous helical anisotropic flow	p. 118
Closing the equations for perturbations of turbulent shear flow in the second-order correlation approximation	p. 120
Interval instability of turbulent Couette flow	p. 124
Helicity as a possible physical mechanism for the amplification of typhoon-type vortical perturbations in the atmosphere and of the modulation of rotation frequency of the Earth	p. 129
Introductory remarks	p. 129
Qualitative analysis of the role played by helicity in typhoon generation	p. 130
On typhoon precursors	p. 134
On the mechanism of modulation of the number of strong earthquakes and of the Earth's rotation frequency	p. 136
The importance and prospects of further research into nonlinear instabilities in helicoidal media (concluding remarks)	p. 144
Two-dimensional or helical turbulence?	p. 144
Vortical processes in the Jovian atmosphere induced by the collision with the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet	p. 147
Some yet unsolved problems	p. 156
Index	p. 161
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