Nonlinear, Nonlocal and Fractional Turbulence
Nonlinear, Nonlocal and Fractional Turbulence
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非线性、非局部和分数湍流
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-26033-0
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发表时间:
2020
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通讯作者:
K. Hutter
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作者:
P. Egolf;K. Hutter
Chaos and turbulence are closely related terms, describing “irregular motion.” This kind of irregularity, with all its facets, is a main topic discussed throughout this book. Chaos is omnipresent in the entire universe, in and on the earth, especially also in the atmosphere and oceans. The two terms “chaos” and “turbulence” are tightly related to order and disorder, the main ingredients in life, art, music, etc. Music of a single frequency and that containing the entire frequency spectrum (white noise) would be annoying and boring. The highly varying mixture of order and disorder, with different tempi and intensities, gives our lives and us human beings the wonderful richness observed in so many features in the dynamics of nature. Isn’ta visualized turbulent fiow above a candle one of the most beautiful examples of volatizing coherent structures? Furthermore, especially at high excitation (energy input), it gives the unnatural impression of an object (in this example it is a plume), which is a simplifying interpretation of a very complex reality experienced by us human beings. In our book, the terms “chaos” and “turbulence” are mainly used in the original Greek manner as phenomena with states located somewhere between order and disorder. Greek χ άoς denotes gaping void, infinite darkness or the primordial state of any existence. In the Greek terminology, it meant the very early matter, which—before the expansion of the universe—already contained all the ingredients and information necessary for its entire wonderful development. This implied not only the originating of the cosmos (from its big bang), but even the creation of the Gods. Furthermore, it is interesting that in the Greek mythology later chaos was also personified as the God of air. Chaos originated in Ancient Greek, but also in related religions of the Ancient Near East, this term played a crucial role. Whereas in the Greek myths chaos was a very positively occupied expression, in the middle age, for example, the motif “Chaoskampf”(German), which means the battle against chaos, symbolized by God defeating a dragon (chaos monster), got a slightly negative occupied meaning (see Picture 1). Then in older religious Christian books, a separation of heaven and earth was believed. In this time, the separation was seen as a cosmogonic act of a deity creator. It was a creation “ex nihilio”(out of nothing) by a single almighty God. v