Lectures on Dynamics of Stochastic Systems

Born in 1940 in Moscow, USSR, Valery I. Klyatskin received his secondary education at school in Tbilisi, Georgia, finishing in 1957. Seven years later he graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (FIZTEX), whereupon he took up postgraduate studies at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow gaining the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Ph.D) in 1968. He then continued at the Institute as a researcher, until 1978, when he was appointed as Head of the Wave Process Department at the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, based in Vladivostok. In 1992 Valery I. Klyatskin returned to Institute of Atmospheric Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow when he was appointed to his present position as Chief Scientist. At the same time he is Chief Scientific Consultant of Pacific Oceanological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok. In 1977 he obtained a doctorate in Physical and Mathematical Sciences and in 1988 became Research Professor of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Russian Academy of Science.

Introduction

Part I: Dynamical description of stochastic systems

Lecture 1. Examples, basic problems, peculiar features of solutions

Lecture 2. Solution dependence on problem type, medium parameters, and initial data

Lecture 3. Indicator function and Liouville

Part II: Statistical description of stochastic systems

Lecture 4. Random quantities, processes, and fields

Lecture 5. Correlation splitting

Lecture 6. General approaches to analyzing stochastic systems

Lecture 7. Stochastic equations with the Markovian fluctuations of

parameters

Lecture 8. Approximation of Gaussian random field delta-correlated

in time

Lecture 9. Methods for solving and analyzing the Fokker-Planck

equation

Lecture 10. Some other approximate approaches to the problems of

statistical hydrodynamics

Part III: Examples of coherent phenomena in stochastic dynamic systems 269

Lecture 11. Passive tracer clustering and diffusion in random hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic flows

Lecture 12. Wave localization in randomly layered media

Lecture 13. Caustic structure of wavefield in random media

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