Proceedings Volume 2012
2012 Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
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Coherent Structures
Colm-cille Caulfield and Charles Doering, Directors
Edgar Knobloch and Jeffrey Weiss, Principal Lecturers
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Lecture Notes taken by GFD Fellows
Principal Lectures
Preface (pdf)
Lecture 1 (pdf)
Dynamics of coherent structures and their impact on transport and predictability
Lecture 2 (pdf)
Coherent structures in 2D fluid dynamics
Lecture 3 (pdf)
Coherent structures in 2D fluid dynamics and structures in 3D quasi-geostrophic fluid dynamics
Lecture 4, Part 1 (pdf)
Part I: Structures in 3D quasi-geostrophic flows
Lecture 4, Part 2 (pdf)
Part II: Rapidly rotating convection
Lecture 5 (pdf)
Applications of coherent structures to the study of weather and climate
Lecture 6 (pdf)
Introduction to spatially localized structures
Lecture 7 (pdf)
The Swift-Hohenberg equation in one spatial dimension
Lecture 8 (pdf)
Pinning and depinning in one and two dimensions
Lecture 9 (pdf)
Spatially localized structures in fluid flows
Lecture 10 (pdf)
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