Turbulence

This is an advanced textbook on the subject of turbulence, and is suitable for engineers, physical scientists and applied mathematicians. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the elementary accounts of turbulence to be found in undergraduate texts, and the more rigorous, accounts given in the many monographs on the subject.

Auteur

Peter Davidson is currently Professor of Fluid Mechanics in the University of Cambridge, and has worked as a research engineer in industry both in the UK and the USA. He was awarded the Institute of Materials prize in 1996 for best paper in non-ferrous metallurgy, and is the author of over 100 publications.

Contenu

• The classical picture of turbulence

• 1: The ubiquitous nature of turbulence

• 2: The equations of fluid mechanics

• 3: The origins and nature of turbulence

• 4: Turbulent shear flows and simple closure models

• 5: The phenomenology of Taylor, Richardson and Kolmogorov

• Freely-decaying, homogeneous turbulence

• 6: Freely-decaying, homogeneous turbulence

• 7: The role of numerical simulations

• 8: Isotropic turbulence (in spectral space)

• Special topics

• 9: The influence of rotation, stratification and magnetic fields on turbulence

• 10: Two-dimensional turbulence