12.820 | Spring 2006 | Graduate

Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere

Lecture Notes

ch2.pdf

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Lecture notes about laminar to turbulent flows, the logistic map as a poor man?s Navier-Stokes equation, linear solutions of the logistic map, bifurcations and the onset of chaos in the logistic map, chaos and sensitivity to initial conditions, routes to chaos, a statistical description of chaos, turbulence and chaos, and statistical description of turbulence.

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Lecture Notes