Wave Turbulence
By: by Sergey Nazarenko
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics -- 825
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9783642159411; 9783642159428
Subjects: Physical geography; Physics; Hydraulic engineering
Description: Wave Turbulence refers to the statistical theory of weakly nonlinear dispersive waves. There is a wide and growing spectrum of physical applications, ranging from sea waves, to plasma waves, to superfluid turbulence, to nonlinear optics and Bose-Einstein condensates. Beyond the fundamentals the book thus also covers new developments such as the interaction of random waves with coherent structures (vortices, solitons, wave breaks), inverse cascades leading to condensation and the transitions between weak and strong turbulence, turbulence intermittency as well as finite system size effects, such as “frozen” turbulence, discrete wave resonances and avalanche-type energy cascades. This book is an outgrow of several lectures courses held by the author and, as a result, written and structured rather as a graduate text than a monograph, with many exercises and solutions offered along the way. The present compact description primarily addresses students and non-specialist researchers wishing to enter and work in this field.