Chaos, complexity and transport; theory and applications; proceedings

by CCT (2007: Marseille, France) Ed. by Cristel Chandre et al

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Book description: World Scientific, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Chandre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), Lenocini (Aix-Marseille U., France), and Zaslavsky (New York U., US) present 29 papers in which physicists explore the topic of chaos, complexity, and turbulence in physical systems in the context of transport processes of plasmas, fluids, and other systems. The more theoretical papers discus such topics as out-of-equilibrium phase transitions in mean-field Hamiltonian dynamics, stochastic webs in multidimensions, chaotic geodesics, complexity and entropy in colliding particle systems, transport in determinist ratchets, and giant acceleration in weakly-perturbed space-periodic Hamiltonian systems. The focus then turns to applications, with papers discussing experimental studies of advection-reaction-diffusion systems, non- diffusive transport in numerical simulations of magnetically-confined turbulent plasmas, rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection in cylinders, self-excited instabilities in plasmas containing dust particles, intermittency scenario of transition to chaos in plasma, nonlinear dynamics of a Hamiltonian four-field model of magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas, generalized Keller-Segel models of chemotaxis, the formation of spiral arms and rings in barred galaxies, wave chaos and ghost orbits in an underwater sound channel, displacement effects on Fermi acceleration in randomized driven billiards, and memory regeneration phenomenon in fractional depolarization of dielectrics, among other topics. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

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