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Author AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Fluids and Plasmas, Geometry and Dynamics (1983 : University of Colorado, Boulder), issuing body.

Title Fluids and plasmas : geometry and dynamics / Jerrold E. Marsden, editor
Published Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [1984]
©1984

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Description 1 online resource (465 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; volume 28
Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; volume 28.
Contents Contents -- Introduction -- Conference Participants -- Part I. Geometric-Analytic Methods -- Stability of Poisson-Hamilton equilibria -- Stability of rigid body motion using the energy-Casimir method -- Stability of planar multifluid plasma equilibria by Arnold's method -- Canonical derivation of the Vlasov-Coulomb noncanonical Poisson structure -- Reduction and Hamiltonian structures on duals of semidirect product Lie algebras -- Gauged Lie-Poisson structures -- The Hamiltonian structure of the BBGKY hierarchy equations
Particle and bracket formulations of kinetic equationsNoncanonical Hamiltonian field theory and reduced MHD -- Geometry and guiding center motion -- Lie-transform derivation of the gyrokinetic Hamiltonian system -- Poisson structures for relativistic systems -- Diffeomorphism groups, semidirect products and quantum theory -- Part II. Analytic and Numerical Methods -- Contour dynamics for two dimensional flows -- On the nonlinear stability of circular vortex patches -- Vortex methods for fluid flow in two orthree dimensions
Hamiltonian perturbation theory and water wavesResults on existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Vlasov equation -- Remarks on collisionless plasmas -- Toward a new kinetic theory for resonant triads -- A spectral method for external viscous flows -- Forecasting the ocean's weather: numerical models for application to oceanographic data -- Part III. Bifurcation and Dynamical Systems -- Geometry and dynamics in experiments on chaotic systems -- Dimension estimates for attractors
Solitary waves as fixed points of infinite-dimensional maps in an optical bistable ring cavityHopf bifurcation and the beam-plasma instability -- Some remarks on chaotic particle paths in time-periodic, three-dimensional swirling flows -- A universal transition from quasi-periodicity to choas -- On the nonpathological behavior of Newton's method -- Successive bifurcations in the interaction of steady state and Hopf bifurcation -- Convection in a rotating fluid layer
Notes "Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Fluids and Plasmas, Geometry and Dynamics held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, July 17-23, 1983"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Fluid dynamics -- Congresses
Plasma dynamics -- Congresses
Differentiable dynamical systems -- Congresses
Geometry, Differential -- Congresses
Differentiable dynamical systems
Fluid dynamics
Geometry, Differential
Plasma dynamics
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Marsden, Jerrold E., editor
American Mathematical Society, issuing body
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, issuing body.
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, issuing body.
AMS-SIAM-IMS Summer Research Conference (1983 : Boulder, Colo.) issuing body
ISBN 9780821876138
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