IUTAM Symposium on Geometry and Statistics of Turbulence

. Ed(s): Kambe, T.; Nakano, T.; Miyauchi, T.

ISBN 10: 0792367111 / ISBN 13: 9780792367116

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001

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Held at the Shonan International Village Center, Hayama (Kanagawa-ken), Japan, November 1-5, 1999 Editor(s): Kambe, T.; Nakano, T.; Miyauchi, T. Series: Fluid Mechanics and its Applications. Num Pages: 416 pages, 315 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PHD; TGMF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 866. . 2001. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IUTAM Symposium on Geometry and Statistics of Turbulence
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792367111
• ISBN 13: 9780792367116
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume contains the papers presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Geometry and Statistics of Turbulence, held in November 1999, at the Shonan International Village Center, Hayama (Kanagawa-ken), Japan. The Symposium was proposed in 1996, aiming at organizing concen­ trated discussions on current understanding of fluid turbulence with empha­ sis on the statistics and the underlying geometric structures. The decision of the General Assembly of International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) to accept the proposal was greeted with enthusiasm. Turbulence is often characterized as having the properties of mixing, inter­ mittency, non-Gaussian statistics, and so on. Interest is growing recently in how these properties are related to formation and evolution of struc­ tures. Note that the intermittency is meant for passive scalars as well as for turbulence velocity or rate of dissipation. There were eighty-eight participants in the Symposium. They came from thirteen countries, and fifty-seven papers were presented. The presenta­ tions comprised a wide variety of fundamental subjects of mathematics, statistical analyses, physical models as well as engineering applications. Among the subjects discussed are (a) Degree of self-similarity in cascade, (b) Fine-scale structures and degree of Markovian property in turbulence, (c) Dynamics of vorticity and rates of strain, (d) Statistics associated with vortex structures, (e) Topology, structures and statistics of passive scalar advection, (f) Partial differential equations governing PDFs of velocity in­ crements, (g) Thermal turbulences, (h) Channel and pipe flow turbulences, and others.