Ten chapters in turbulence
Turbulence is ubiquitous in science, technology and daily life and yet, despite years of research, our understanding of its fundamental nature is still tentative and incomplete. More generally, the tools required for a deep understanding of strongly interacting many-body systems remain underdevelope...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Turbulence is ubiquitous in science, technology and daily life and yet, despite years of research, our understanding of its fundamental nature is still tentative and incomplete. More generally, the tools required for a deep understanding of strongly interacting many-body systems remain underdeveloped. Inspired by a research programme held at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, this book contains reviews by leading experts that summarize our current understanding of the nature of turbulence from theoretical, experimental, observational and computational points of view. The articles cover a wide range of topics, including the scaling and organized motion in wall turbulence, small scale structure, dynamics and statistics of homogeneous turbulence, turbulent transport and mixing, and effects of rotation, stratification and magnetohydrodynamics, as well as superfluidity. The book will be useful to researchers and graduate students interested in the fundamental nature of turbulence at high Reynolds numbers. 2.5 Vorticity statistics in turbulenceReferences; 3 Passive Scalar Transport in Turbulence:A Computational Perspective; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Computational perspective; 3.3 Background theory; 3.4 Approach to low-order asymptotic state; 3.5 High-order statistics: fine-scale structure and intermittency; 3.6 Concluding remarks; References; 4 A Lagrangian View of Turbulent Dispersion and Mixing; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Single particle motion and absolute dispersion; 4.3 Two particle motion and relative dispersion; 4.4 n-particle statistics; 4.5 Conclusions; References 5 The Eddies and Scales of Wall Turbulence5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Background; 5.3 Scales of coherent structures in wall turbulence; 5.4 Relationship between statistical fine-scales and eddyscales; 5.5 Summary and conclusions; References; 6 Dynamics of Wall-Bounded Turbulence; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The classical theory of wall-bounded turbulence; 6.3 The dynamics of the near-wall region; 6.4 The logarithmic and outer layers; 6.5 Coherent structures and dynamical systems; 6.6 Conclusions; References; 7 Recent Progress in Stratified Turbulence; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Scaling, cascade and spectra 7.3 Numerical simulations7.4 Laboratory experiments; 7.5 Field data; 7.6 Conclusions; Appendix; References; 8 Rapidly-Rotating Turbulence: An Experimental Perspective; 8.1 The evidence of the early experiments; 8.2 Background: inertial waves and the formation of Taylorcolumns; 8.3 The spontaneous growth of Taylor columns fromcompact eddies at low Ro; 8.4 Anisotropic structuring via nonlinear wave interactions:resonant triads; 8.5 Recent experimental evidence on inertial waves andcolumnar vortex formation; 8.6 The cyclone-anticyclone asymmetry: speculative cartoons 8.7 The rate of energy decay8.8 Concluding remarks; References; 9 MHD Dynamos and Turbulence; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Dynamo; 9.3 Mean field; 9.4 Conclusions; References; 10 How Similar is Quantum Turbulence to Classical Turbulence?; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Preliminary remarks on decaying QT; 10.3 Comparisons between QT and HIT: energy spectrum; 10.4 Decaying vorticity; 10.5 Decay of HIT when the shape of the energy spectramatters; 10.6 Effective viscosity; 10.7 Conclusions; References Leading experts summarize our current understanding of the fundamental nature of turbulence, covering a wide range of topics |
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| Beschreibung: | XII, 437 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780521769440 978-0-521-76944-0 |