Turbulence in Rotating, Stratified and Electrically Conducting Fluids

Preface 1. The interplay of waves and turbulence: a preview Part I. From Fluid Mechanics to Magnetohydrodynamics: 2. Elementary fluid dynamics 3. Motion in a rotating fluid 4. Motion in a stratified fluid 5. The equations of electrodynamics 6. Motion in a conducting fluid: magnetohydrodynamics 7. Instabilities and transition to turbulence Part II. Turbulence in the Absence of Body Forces: 8. Elementary properties of turbulence 9. The language of turbulence: kinematics and statistics 10. Hydrodynamic turbulence I. Classical theories 11. Hydrodynamic turbulence II: steps towards rotating, stratified and MHD turbulence Part III. Turbulence in the Presence of Body Forces: 12. Rapidly rotating turbulence 13. Towards geophysics: shallow-water, rapidly-rotating turbulence 14. Homogeneous stratified turbulence 15. Stratified shear flows and the atmospheric boundary layer 16. MHD turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number 17. Turbulence in the core of the Earth: the geodynamo 18. MHD turbulence at high magnetic Reynolds number 19. Turbulent astrophysical flows Epilogue Index.