Multifractals, Turbulence and Complexity in Geoscience and Space Science, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2025 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editors
Interests: information theory; time series analysis; solar wind-magnetosphere–ionosphere system; space weather
Interests: solar physics; interplanetary physics; cosmic rays; complexity
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Interests: near-Earth electromagnetic environment (magnetosphere, ionosphere); extreme events in climate; sea level rise; turbulence in fluids and plasmas; theory of complex systems and chaos
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The great variety of physical processes observed in geoscience and space science presents a rich dynamic, originating from interactions between different components, scaling law behaviors, nonlinear phenomena, non-stationary forcings and geometrical constraints. This complexity appears via non-hyperbolic chaos, turbulence, multifractal features, randomness, self-organization, state-dependent persistence and predictability. Over the past few decades, nonlinear approaches to statistical mechanics and dynamical systems, which are nowadays frequently employed in both geoscience and space science, have rapidly developed in order to gain novel insights in these fields.
The focus of this Special Issue is to collate significant advances in topics related to multifractals, complexity and turbulence in geoscience and space science. Topics that are invited for submission include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Conceptual and/or methodological approaches and methods for the characterization of multifractal features;
- Turbulence and intermittency: from injection to dissipation in fluid and plasma flows;
- Extreme events in geophysical and space sciences: the quantification of drivers, methods and impacts;
- Out-of-equilibrium processes, self-organization and criticality in the Earth’s system and space environment;
- Scaling law behavior, multiplicative cascades, and random multifractals;
- Theoretical advancements, laboratory experiments and numerical methods in the field of multifractals and turbulence.
Feel free to read and download all our published articles in the 1st volume: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/fractalfract/special_issues/multifractal_turbul_complex
Dr. Mirko Stumpo
Dr. Simone Benella
Dr. Tommaso Alberti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fractals and multifractals
- complexity and turbulence
- extreme events
- out of equilibrium
- self-organization and criticality
- multiplicative cascades and random multifractals
- geoscience
- space physics
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