عنوان

Turbulence in Fluids :

(Number (ISBN

9400935455

(Number (ISBN

9789400935457

Number

b595559

Title Proper

Turbulence in Fluids :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Stochastic and numerical modelling

First Statement of Responsibility

by Marcel Lesieur.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1987

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(298 pages)

Series Title

Mechanics of fluids and transport processes, 6.

Text of Note

I Introduction to turbulence in fluid mechanics --; 1 Is it possible to define turbulence? --; 2 Examples of turbulent flows --; 3 Fully developed turbulence --; 4 Fluid turbulence and 'chaos' --; 5 'Deterministic' and statistical approaches --; 6 Why study isotropic turbulence? --; II Basic fluid dynamics --; 1 Eulerian notation and Lagrangian derivatives --; 2 The continuity equation --; 3 The conservation of momentum --; 4 The thermodynamic equation --; 5 The incompressibility assumption --; 6 The dynamics of vorticity --; 7 The generalized Kelvin theorem --; 8 The Boussinesq equations --; 9 Internal inertial-gravity waves --; 10 Barré de Saint-Venant equations --; III Transition to turbulence --; 1 The Reynolds number --; 2 The Rayleigh number --; 3 The Rossby number --; 4 The Froude Number --; 5 Turbulence, order and chaos --; IV The Fourier space --; 1 Fourier representation of a flow --; 2 Navier-Stokes equations in Fourier space --; 3 Boussinesq equations in the Fourier space --; 4 Craya decomposition --; 5 Complex helical waves decomposition --; V Kinematics of homogeneous turbulence --; 1 Utilization of random functions --; 2 Moments of the velocity field, homogeneity and stationarity --; 3 Isotropy --; 4 The spectral tensor of an isotropic turbulence --; 5 Energy, helicity, enstrophy and scalar spectra --; 6 Alternative expressions of the spectral tensor --; 7 Axisymmetric turbulence --; VI Phenomenological theories --; 1 The closure problem of turbulence --; 2 Karman-Howarth equations in Fourier space --; 3 Transfer and Flux --; 4 The Kolmogorov theory --; 5 The Richardson law --; 6 Characteristic scales of turbulence --; 7 The skewness factor --; 8 The internal intermittency --; VII Analytical theories and stochastic models --; 1 Introduction --; 2 The Quasi-Normal approximation --; 3 The Eddy-Damped Quasi-Normal type theories --; 4 The stochastic models --; 5 Phenomenology of the closures --; 6 Numerical resolution of the closure equations --; 7 The enstrophy divergence and energy catastrophe --; 8 The Burgers-M.R.C.M. model --; 9 Isotropic helical turbulence --; 10 The decay of kinetic energy --; 11 E.D.Q.N.M. and R.N.G. techniques --; VIII Diffusion of passive scalars --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Phenomenology of the homogeneous passive scalar diffusion --; 3 The E.D.Q.N.M. isotropic passive scalar --; 4 The decay of temperature fluctuations --; 5 Lagrangian particle pair dispersion --; IX Two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence --; 1 Introduction --; 2 The quasi-geostrophic theory --; 3 Two-dimensional isotropic turbulence --; 4 Diffusion of a passive scalar --; 5 Geostrophic turbulence --; X Absolute equilibrium ensembles --; 1 Truncated Euler Equations --; 2 Liouville's theorem in the phase space --; 3 The application to two-dimensional turbulence --; 4 Two-dimensional turbulence over topography --; XI The statistical predictability theory --; 1 Introduction --; 2 The E.D.Q.N.M. predictability equations --; 3 Predictability of three dimensional turbulence --; 4 Predictability of two-dimensional turbulence --; XII Large-eddy simulations --; 1 The direct numerical simulation of turbulence --; 2 The Large Eddy Simulations --; 3 L.E.S. of 3-D isotropic turbulence --; 4 L.E.S. of two-dimensional turbulence --; XIII Towards 'real world turbulence' --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Stably Stratified Turbulence --; 3 The Mixing Layer --; 4 Conclusion --; References.

Mechanics.

Meteorology.

Physics.

by Marcel Lesieur.

Marcel Lesieur

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