Publisher's Synopsis
This work contains expository overview articles and contributed papers from an interdisciplinary workshop held in the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University, which houses experiments using a rotating water tank for simulating geophysical flows and a helical axis stellarator, the H-1Heliac, for advanced plasma confinement experiments. The site of the workshop thus provided a natural meeting ground for theoreticians and experimentalists from both geophysical fluid dynamics and plasma physics to establish a dialogue on the underlying physics common to the two areas.
