Turbulence in Fluids: Stochastic and numerical modelling

✍ Scribed by Marcel Lesieur (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Series: Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes 6
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

`Turbulence in Fluids will serve as a graduate-text to follow up... '
Pageoph
`The book that Professor Lesieur has written on turbulence is an irreplaceable subject. Lesieur's work mixes rigor and intuition. ... it is the spirit in which it is written that is striking. Moreover the book is attractively presented. At the present time is seems difficult to ignore this book which fits very well into the collection of classical works on the subject.'
Prof. J. Mathieu, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique
`The book is attractively produced ... some beautiful photographs ... this is an interesting and attractive book. Everyone interested in the more theoretical aspects of turbulence will want to read it. '
D.C. Leslie in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 194
` .. a useful text for a first course in turbulence for physicists, or as a second course for engineering students who have already had a more phenomenological introduction to the subject. It is a useful reference for the specialist who may not keep at his fingertips some of the details of the analytical theories and stochastic models. '
AIAA Journal, 26:10

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction to Turbulence in Fluid Mechanics....Pages 1-16
Basic Fluid Dynamics....Pages 17-36
Transition to Turbulence....Pages 37-50
The Fourier Space....Pages 51-60
Kinematics of Homogeneous Turbulence....Pages 61-77
Phenomenological Theories....Pages 79-100
Analytical Theories and Stochastic Models....Pages 101-135
Diffusion of Passive Scalars....Pages 137-161
Two-Dimensional and Quasi-Geostrophic Turbulence....Pages 163-203
Absolute Equilibrium Ensembles....Pages 205-213
The Statistical Predictability Theory....Pages 215-225
Large Eddy Simulations....Pages 227-240
Towards “Real World Turbulence”....Pages 241-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-286

✦ Subjects

Mechanics;Meteorology/Climatology;Classical Continuum Physics;Automotive Engineering