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Turbulence in Fluids

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Marcel Lesieur

    1. Institut Universitaire de France, Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble, France

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Part of the book series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (FMIA, volume 40)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Introduction to Turbulence in Fluid Mechanics

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 1-21

  3. Basic Fluid Dynamics

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 23-59

  4. Transition to Turbulence

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 61-104

  5. Shear-Flow Turbulence

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 105-133

  6. Fourier Analysis of Homogeneous Turbulence

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 135-165

  7. Isotropic Turbulence: Phenomenology and Simulations

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 167-212

  8. Analytical Theories and Stochastic Models

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 213-283

  9. Two-Dimensional Turbulence

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 285-314

  10. Geostrophic Turbulence

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 315-347

  11. Absolute Equilibrium Ensembles

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 349-358

  12. The Statistical Predictability Theory

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 359-373

  13. Large-Eddy Simulations

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 375-408

  14. Towards “Real World Turbulence”

    • Marcel Lesieur
    Pages 409-457

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 459-520
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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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`... 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

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  • Institut Universitaire de France, Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble, France

    Marcel Lesieur

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