Turbulence and Random Processes in Fluid Mechanics

ISBN-13: 9780521422130 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 184 str.

Marten Landahl; E. Mollo-Christensen

Opis

In the second edition of their successful textbook, Professors Landahl and Mollo-Christensen have taken the opportunity to include recent developments in the field of chaos and its applications to turbulent flow. This timely update continues the original theme of the book: presenting the fundamental concepts and the basic methods of fluid flow turbulence that enable the reader to follow the literature and understand current research. The emphasis on the dynamic processes that create and maintain turbulent flows gives this book an original approach.

Recenzje

"...an easy to read introduction to turbulence, instabilities and transitions....successfully reviews a large class of nonlinear phenomena in fluids (solitons, deterministic chaos, transitions, fully developed turbulence) without many technical details....provides a good bibliography....very valuable in that it rapidly provides a good fundamental background to engineers who have to cope with realistic problems in fluids." P. L. Sulem, Mathematical Reviews

Spis treści

1. Introduction with historical notes; 2. Characteristic scales and nondimensional parameters; 3. Basic equations; 4. Statistical tools for description of turbulence; 5. Examples of homogeneous turbulent flows; 6. Waves; 7. Instability and transition to turbulence; 8. Shear flow turbulence structure; 9. Turbulence modeling and closure schemes; 10. Aerodynamic noise; 11. Convective transport; 12. Numerical simulation of turbulence.