Physics 235 | Spring 2016

Lecture Notes:

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Notes 1: Transport in Stochastic Fields -Diffusive Dynamics 1 - posted 05 April 2016

Notes 2: Transport in Stochastic Fields-Diffusive Dynamics 2 - posted 07 April 2016

Notes 3: Stochastic Fields:Particle Transport; Toward High Ku - posted 10 April 2016

Notes 4: Random Medium Analogues - posted 12 April 2016

Notes 5: Review, Transport and Random Media, Introduction to Percolation - posted 18 April 2016

Notes 6: Introduction to Intermittency - posted 4 May 2016

Notes 7: Divertimento on Intermittency and Fractals - reposted 2 May 2016

Notes 8: Hurst Exponent, R/S Analysis, Fractal Dimension, Levy Stability - posted 16 May 2016

Notes 9: Systematics of Levy Flights, Introduction to CTRW Models of Anomalous Diffusion - reposted 27 May 2016

Notes 10: Calculating Anomalous Transport by Fractional Kinetics - posted 27 May 2016

Notes 11: Self Organized-Criticality-Intro and Basics - posted 9 June 2016

Notes 12: Self Organized Criticality: Hydrodynamic Models - posted 10 June 2016

Notes 13: Overview of Self-Organized Criticality with MFE Focus-for APTWG 2016 - reposted 20 June 2016

Student Lecture Summaries

Week 1 - R. Hajjar: Stochasticity and Stochastic Field Transport - posted 27 April 2016

Week 2 - K. Thompson: Stochastic Field Effects on Zonal Flows, Features of Ku > 1 Regime, Diffusion in GC Plasma - posted 5 May 2016

Week 3 - Y. Zhang: Models of Transport in Large Ku Regime: Taylor Cell Problem, Shear Dispersion, Intro to Percolation Theory - posted 5 May 2016

Week 4 - X. Fan: Introduction to Phase Synchronization - Lectures by Dr. Zhibin Guo - posted 11 May 2016

Week 5 - J. Li: Intermittency I: Lognormal Distribution and Multiplicative Processes, Stochastic ODE and PDE, Role of Higher Moments - posted 19 May 2016

Week 6 - R. Hong: Fractal Models of Intermittency, Beta Model, Hurst Exponent - posted 23 May 2016

Week 7 - R. Hajjar: Hurst Exponent Cont'd, Levy-Pareto, 1/f Noise, Levy Stability and Flights - posted 2 June 2016

Week 8 - K. Thompson: Theory of Continuous Time Random Walks and Fractional Kinetics - posted 6 June 2016

Week 9 - Y. Zhang: Self Organized Criticality: Basic Concepts and Hydrodynamic Models - posted 13 June 2016