LECTURE NOTES ON TURBULENCE - Hardcover

 
9789971508050: LECTURE NOTES ON TURBULENCE

Synopsis

This book is a formal presentation of lectures given at the 1987 Summer School on Turbulence, held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research under the auspices of the Geophysical Turbulence Program. The lectures present in detail certain of the more challenging and interesting current turbulence research problems in engineering, meteorology, plasma physics, and mathematics. The lecturers-Uriel Frisch (Mathematics), Douglas Lilly (Meteorology), David Montgomery (Plasma Physics), and Hendrik Tennekes (Engineering) -- are distinguished for both their research contributions and their abilities to communicate these to students with enthusiasm. This book is distinguished by its simultaneous focus on the fundamentals of turbulent flows (in neutral and ionized fluids) and on a presentation of current research tools and topics in these fields.

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About the Author

James McWilliams is an historian and writer based in Austin, Texas. His books include "Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly" (Little, Brown) and "A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America" (Columbia University Press).

McWilliams' writing on food, agriculture, and animals has appeared in the "New York Times", "Harper s", "The Washington Post", "Slate", "The American Scholar", and "The Texas Observer". He is a frequent contributor to Freakonomics.com, "Conservation", "Pacific Standard", and "Laika Magazine". His literary non-fiction has appeared in "The Millions", "Quarterly Conversation" and "The New York Times Book Review".

Review

"... a record of some stimulating and informative lectures." Journal of Fluid Mechanics,1992 "... give a good grasp of many questions of importance in this essential field." Monatshefte fur Mathematik, 1991

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