Turbulence in Fluids (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications) - Softcover

Lesieur, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0792344162 ISBN 13: 9780792344162

Publisher: Springer, 1997

Synopsis

Turbulence is a dangerous topic which is often at the origin of serious fights in the scientific meetings devoted to it since it represents extremely different points of view, all of which have in common their complexity, as well as an inability to solve the problem. It is even difficult to agree on what exactly is the problem to be solved. Extremely schematically, two opposing points of view have been ad­ vocated during these last twenty years: the first one is "statistical", and tries to model the evolution of averaged quantities of the flow. This com­ munity, which has followed the glorious trail of Taylor and Kolmogorov, believes in the phenomenology of cascades, and strongly disputes the possibility of any coherence or order associated to turbulence. On the other bank of the river stands the "coherence among chaos" community, which considers turbulence from a purely deterministic po­ int of view, by studying either the behaviour of dynamical systems, or the stability of flows in various situations. To this community are also associated the experimentalists who seek to identify coherent structures in shear flows.

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Review

`... welcome this excellent reference book and would highly recommend it to a theoretician, a modeler and an engineer who has to select a turbulence model befitting his task ... a welcome addition to every scientific library ...'
European Journal of Mechanics, B/Fluids

`... a good introduction to turbulence ... '
Meccanica

`... highly recommended to all research workers in fluid dynamics ...'
The Aeronautical Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0792344162
• ISBN 13: 9780792344162
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 520