FRONTIERS IN TURBULENCE AND COHERENT STRUCTURES

FRONTIERS IN TURBULENCE AND COHERENT STRUCTURES
Proceedings of the COSNet/CSIRO Workshop on Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids, Plasmas and Nonlinear Media

The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia , 10 - 13 January 2006

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, STABILITY, AND CHAOS ROWENA BALL and PHILIP HOLMES	1
INSTABILITY THEORY AND PREDICTABILITY OF ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES JORGEN S. FREDERIKSEN	29
MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIA AND ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING MEELIS J. ZIDIKHERI, JORGEN S. FREDERIKSEN and TERENCE J. O'KANE	59
COHERENT PATTERNS OF INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION: THE ROLE OF INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY CARSTEN S. FREDERIKSEN and X. ZHENG	87
REGIMES OF THE WIND-DRIVEN OCEAN FLOWS HENK A. DIJKSTRA	121
NONLINEAR RESONANCE AND CHAOS IN AN OCEAN MODEL ANDREW KISS	149
LOW FREQUENCY OCEAN VARIABILITY: FEEDBACKS BETWEEN EDDIES AND THE MEAN FLOW ANDREW McC. HOGG, WILLIAM K. DEWAR, PETER D. KILLWORTH and JEFFREY R. BLUNDELL	171
PERIODIC MOTION VERSUS TURBULENT MOTION: SCALING LAWS, BURSTING AND LYAPUNOV SPECTRA LENNAERT VAN VEEN, SHIGEO KIDA and GENTA KAWAHARA	187
MAXIMUM ENTROPY N-PARTICLE LAGRANGIAN CLUSTERS IN TURBULENCE AND APPLICATION TO SCALAR FIELDS MICHAEL S. BORGAS	203
A REVIEW OF RECENT INVESTIGATIONS INTO HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER WALL-TURBULENCE JASON P. MONTY and MIN S. CHONG	227
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING FROM SIMULATING WALL TURBULENCE? JAVIER JIMÉNEZ	247
COHERENT STRUCTURES GENERATED BY A SYNTHETIC JET JONATHAN H. WATMUFF	261
TWO-POINT TURBULENCE CLOSURES REVISITED DAVID McCOMB	281
TURBULENCE CLOSURES AND SUBGRID-SCALE PARAMETERIZATIONS JORGEN S. FREDERIKSEN and TERENCE J. O'KANE	315
STATISTICAL DYNAMICAL METHODS OF ENSEMBLE PREDICTION AND DATA ASSIMILATION DURING BLOCKING TERENCE J. O'KANE and JORGEN S. FREDERIKSEN	355
DISTILLED TURBULENCE: A REDUCED MODEL FOR CONFINEMENT TRANSITIONS IN MAGNETIC FUSION PLASMAS ROWENA BALL	395
ZONAL FLOW GENERATION BY MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY ROBERT L. DEWAR and R. F. ABDULLATIF	415
NONLINEAR SIMULATION OF DRIFT WAVE TURBULENCE RYUSUKE NUMATA, ROWENA BALL and ROBERT L. DEWAR	431
THE TRANSITION TO ION-TEMPERATURE-GRADIENT-DRIVEN PLASMA TURBULENCE JOHN A. KROMMES	443
SPECTRAL TRANSFER ANALYSIS IN PLASMA TURBULENCE STUDIES HUA XIA and MICHAEL G. SHATS	457
COHERENT STRUCTURES IN TOROIDAL ELECTRON PLASMAS: SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTS R. GANESH and S. PAHARI	471
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