Advances in Turbulence VII: Proceedings of the Seventh European Turbulence Confe

Publisher Description

This volume contains an overview of the state of turbulence research with some bias towards work done in Europe. It represents an almost complete collection of the invited and contributed papers delivered at the Seventh European Turbulence Conference, sponsored by EUROMECH and ERCOFTAC and organized by the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur. High-Reynolds number experiments combined with techniques of imaging, non-intrusive probing, processing and simulation provide high-quality data which put significant constraints on possible theories. For the first time, it has been shown, for a class of passive scalar problems, why dimensional analysis sometimes gives the wrong answers and how anomalous intermittency corrections can be calculated from first principles. The volume is thus geared towards specialists in the area of flow turbulence who could not attend the conference as well as anybody interested in this rapidly-moving field.

Table of Contents

I. Experiments and Experimental Techniques/Experiences et techniques experimentales. II. Transition and Dynamical Systems/Transition et systemes dynamiques. III. Numerical Simulation/Simulation numerique. IV. High Reynolds Numbers and Intermittency/Grands nombres de Reynolds et intermittence. V. Industrial Applications and Modelling/Applications industrielles et modelisation. VI. Vortex Dynamics/Dynamique du tourbillon. VII. Astro/Geophysical Flow and Convection/Ecoulements astro/geophysiques et convection. VIII. Transport of Passive Scalars/Transport de scalaires passifs.

Review

In total, this book provides an excellent overview of the current state of research pertaining to the issues of turbulence. It attains a high scientific level and will be of use in developing further study for various aspects of turbulence.' Pure and Applied Gehophysics, 157 (2000)

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