2D Fluid Dynamics with Pure Electron Plasmas

本计画利用纯电子电浆来研究二维近无粘性流体流动。 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的努力与具有地球物理流动和二维湍流分析和数值分析经验的研究人员的努力结合起来。 研究的关键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后期状态，他们如何创建结构和空间模式，以及如何动态不同的流动是严格的哈密顿与强迫和耗散，使相空间都排斥和吸引区域。 这项工作的结果将对湍流理论、模式形成、行星大气、海洋学以及星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.