2D Fluid Dynamics with Pure Electron Plasmas

本项目采用纯电子等离子体研究二维近无粘流体流动。该项目将具有纯电子等离子体和等离子体流体实验经验的研究人员与具有地球物理流动和二维湍流的解析和数值分析经验的研究人员联合起来。关键的研究领域将包括确定复杂的流体系统如何平衡和放松到他们的晚时间状态，他们如何创造结构和空间模式，以及动力学如何在严格的哈密顿流动中与那些具有强迫和耗散的流动中有所不同，这样的相空间既有排斥区也有吸引区。这项工作的结果将对湍流理论、模式形成、行星大气、海洋学以及恒星和行星形成产生广泛的影响。

This project employs pure electron plasmas to study two-dimensional nearly inviscid fluid flow. The project unites the efforts of researchers with experience in pure electron plasmas and plasma fluid experiments with those with experience in the analytic and numerical analysis of geophysical flows and two-dimensional turbulence. Key areas of study will include determining how complex fluid systems equilibrate and relax toward their late-time states, how they create structures and spatial patterns, and how the dynamics differ in flows that are strictly Hamiltonian from those with forcing and dissipation such that the phase space has both repelling and attracting regions. The results of this work will have broad impact on turbulence theory, pattern formation, planetary atmospheres, oceanography, and star and planet formation.