Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows

Download or read book Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows written by Jeffrey B. Weiss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transports in fluids can be approached from two complementary perspectives. In the Eulerian view of mixing, the focus is on the concentration field. In the Langrangian view, fluid parcels are followed around as they move with the flow, experiencing chaotic or stochastic motion. This book examines both pictures, presenting a number of theoretical and experimental lectures on various aspects of transport and mixing of active and passive particles in geophysical flows.