Rossby Vortices, Spiral Structures, Solitons

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-3

3. The Natural Phenomena Simulated in Rotating Shallow Water Experiments

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4. Common Features of the Simulated Natural Phenomena

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5. Physical Prerequisites of the Laboratory Simulation of Large-Scale Rossby Vortices and Galactic Spiral Structures

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6. Physical Basis for the Experimental Investigation of Rossby Solitons and Laboratory Simulation of Drift Vortices and Solitons in Magnetized Plasma

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   Pages 43-66

7. Experimental Configurations

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8. Laboratory Simulation of Rossby Vortices and Solitons in Planetary Atmospheres and Oceans

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   Pages 81-106

9. Laboratory Simulation of Galactic Spiral Structures

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   Pages 107-127

10. Rossby Vortices and Solitons in Free Motion

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11. Solitonic Model of Natural Vortices

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12. Dipolar Rossby Vortices

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13. Shallow-Water Simulation of Drift Vortices and Solitons in Magnetized Plasma

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    Pages 177-183

14. Conclusion

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    Pages 185-188

15. S. Supplements

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    Pages 189-205

16. Back Matter

    Pages 207-227

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This book can be looked upon in more ways than one. On the one hand, it describes strikingly interesting and lucid hydrodynamic experiments done in the style of the "good old days" when the physicist needed little more than a piece of string and some sealing wax. On the other hand, it demonstrates how a profound physical analogy can help to get a synoptic view on a broad range of nonlinear phenomena involving self-organization of vortical structures in planetary atmo­ spheres and oceans, in galaxies and in plasmas. In particular, this approach has elucidated the nature and the mechanism of such grand phenomena as the Great of galaxies. A number of our Red Spot vortex on Jupiter and the spiral arms predictions concerning the dynamics of spiral galaxies are now being confirmed by astronomical observations stimulated by our experiments. This book is based on the material most of which was accumulated during 1981-88 in close cooperation with our colleagues, experimenters from the Plasma Physics Department of the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute (S. V. Antipov, A. S. Trubnikov, AYu. Rylov, AV. Khutoretsky) and astrophysics theoreticians from the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences (AM. Frid­ man) and from the Volgograd State University (AG. Morozov). To all of them we wish to express our gratitude. Whenever we speak of "our experiments", the participation of the entire team is implied.

• Plasma
• Plasmaphysik
• Rossby vortices
• Rossby-Wirbel
• Solitonen
• Spiralgalaxien
• collision
• drift solitons
• galaxy
• great red spot of Jupiter
• particles
• plasmas
• shallow water
• spiral galaxies
• structure

• Russian Scientific Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia

  Mikhail V. Nezlin, Evgenii N. Snezhkin

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