Rendiconti della Scuola internazionale di fisica "Enrico Fermi."A. R. Osborne |
Contents
The partition between vortices and turbulent cascade | 33 |
Limitations on the occurrence of vortices in turbulence | 39 |
Introduction | 40 |
Concluding remarks | 48 |
Kortewegde | 66 |
Theory | 73 |
Equatorial modons | 76 |
the nonlinear Schrödinger | 82 |
Summary | 541 |
H PEREGRINE Nonlinear wave refraction | 557 |
SHEMER and M STIASSNIE The Zakharov and modified Zakharov | 581 |
Interaction of two wave trains | 592 |
Longtime evolution of Stokes waves | 601 |
YUEN Numerical experiments on chaos and order in the long | 621 |
Effects of number of stable modes | 627 |
STIASSNIE The fractal dimension of the ocean surface | 633 |
Continuous stratification | 92 |
Rodon special case | 107 |
Numerical solutions | 114 |
Discussion | 127 |
FARGE Nonlinear dynamics of inertiogravity waves | 133 |
Introduction | 175 |
The QG1 experiment | 211 |
Experiments with the forced and dissipative quasigeostrophic equa | 217 |
J SOMMERIA S D MEYERS and HARRY L SWINNEY Experiments | 227 |
Instabilities and Rossby waves in eastward jets | 238 |
The Great Red Spot and other Jovian vortices | 253 |
Earlier laboratory models of Jovian spots | 258 |
Concluding remarks | 266 |
P F LINDEN Dynamics of fronts and eddies | 311 |
A BRANDSTATER and HARRY L SWINNEY Chaotic CouetteTaylor | 353 |
Quantifying chaos | 361 |
A PROVENZALE A R OSBORNE A D KIRWAN jr and L | 367 |
Monofractal properties of drifter trajectories | 374 |
Multifractal nature of drifter trajectories | 385 |
Deterministic vs stochastic models | 396 |
J KLEIN and W A SEITZ Directed selfinteracting selfavoiding | 403 |
Transfer matrix eigenproblem | 410 |
Introduction | 417 |
PART II | 420 |
PART III | 432 |
G PEGGION A variational method for determining absolute velocities | 439 |
Applications | 446 |
Conclusion | 452 |
H C YUEN Recent advances in nonlinear water waves | 461 |
Weakly nonlinear waves in two space dimensions | 478 |
Spectral description of water waves | 484 |
A new type of threedimensional instability | 494 |
J P BOYD Weakly nonlocal solitary waves | 527 |
LEVI Nonlinear internal solitary waves in straits with varying | 649 |
Solution technique for the perturbed KdV equation | 659 |
A R OSBORNE Nonlinear Fourier analysis | 669 |
the Fourier transform | 701 |
The spectral transform in 1 + 1 dimensions | 709 |
The spectral transform 2 + 1 dimensions | 733 |
APPENDIX A The RH problem | 757 |
E R TRACY J W LARSON A R OSBORNE and L BERGAMASCO | 769 |
Periodic spectral theory for the KortewegdeVries equation 782 | 782 |
Periodic spectral theory for the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger | 788 |
144 | 809 |
spatially periodic | 827 |
The spectraltransform method of Osborne and Bergamasco | 833 |
Stokes expansions | 840 |
The physical representation modular transforms and frames | 846 |
The regularized longwave RLW equation | 853 |
Introduction | 875 |
Twodimensional internal solitary waves in the Alboran Sea | 881 |
On the importance of 2D spreading effects | 887 |
Summary of KP theory | 893 |
Presentation and discussion of results | 904 |
318 | 909 |
Epilogue | 913 |
Potential physical mechanisms | 921 |
CAVALERI WAM a thirdgeneration wave model | 925 |
CAVALERI WAM application to the Mediterranean Seathe | 945 |
WAM implementations in the whole Mediterranean Sea | 957 |
Conclusions | 967 |
RIT and ripples | 973 |
Review of previous experiments on ripple triads | 979 |
Resonanttriad selection | 986 |
Epilogue | 994 |
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