Coherent Vortical Structures in Fluids and Plasmas
Coherent vortical structures appear in planetary atmospheres, oceans, laboratory experiments with rotating fluids, magnetized plasmas, pure electron plasma confined by a magnetic field, and dusty plasmas. Understanding the dynamics of coherent vortical structures in two-dimensional flows is of fundamental and practical interest in fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and Bose-Einstein condensate. The applications extend from transporting a trapped mass, heat, and momentum in large-scale weather patterns to plasma holes, electron columns confined in a Malmberg–Penning trap, dust particles under the action of plasma forces or charge gradients and vortex lattices in “rotating liquid helium bucket” passing through shallow layer water spinning in a bucket.
A joint Special Topic on coherent vortical structures in Physics of Fluids and Physics of Plasmas aims to bring the latest advancement in fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and Bose-Einstein condensate communities working on the canonical problem of coherent vortical structures. Papers related to vortices in plasmas should be submitted to Physics of Plasmas, while those related to vortices in other states of matter should be submitted to Physics of Fluids.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- The analogy between the plasma, the fluid, and Bose-Einstein condensate
- “Point vortices” and satellite vortices
- Geophysical flows
- Transport and driving mechanisms in two-dimensional turbulence in fluids and (dusty) plasmas
- Electron columns and drift-waves in magnetized plasma
- Quantized vortices in Bose-Einstein condensate
Guest Editors
Hamid Ait Abderrahmane, Khalifa University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Andre Melzer, Institut für Physik, Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
Submission Instructions
Manuscripts considered for publication in Physics of Plasmas are expected to meet the journal’s standard of acceptance: to report on original and timely results that significantly advance understanding in observational, computational, and theoretical plasma physics. Manuscripts will publish in an issue immediately after acceptance and form a collection with Physics of Fluids papers for this Special Topic. For more information on the journal’s editorial policies: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/pages/Policies
Manuscripts must be submitted through the Physics of Plasmas online submission system (PXP). Please select the Special Topic “Coherent Vortical Structures in Fluids and Plasmas” to submit your manuscript for consideration in this Special Topic.