This book is written for researchers as well as engineers in an industrial environment. Following a longstanding tradition of the Les Houches Summer Schools, all chapters are pedagogically presented and accessible for graduate students. The book treats 2D and 3D turbulence from the experimental, theoretical and computational points of view. The reader will find, for example, comprehensive accounts of fully developed turbulence experiments, simulating deterministically coherent vortices formation, and statistical prediction of industrial flows, and a very complete review of 2D turbulence. Fundamental concepts like topological fluid dynamics in MHD flows or finite-time singularities of the Burgers, Euler and Navier--Stokes equations complete the volume.

Klappentext

Following a longstanding tradition of the Les Houches Summer Schools, this book uses a pedagogically presented and accessible style to treat 2D and 3D turbulence from the experimental, theoretical and computational points of view.

Inhalt

The Century of Turbulence Theory: The Main Achievements and Unsolved Problems.- Measures of Anisotropy and the Universal Properties of Turbulence.- Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulence.- Statistical Turbulence Modelling for the Computation of Physically Complex Flows.- Computational Aeroacoustics.- The Topology of Turbulence.- Burgulence.- Two-Dimensional Turbulence.- Analysing and Computing Turbulent Flows Using Wavelets.- Lagrangian Description of Turbulence.