Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications

By: Marcel Lesieur

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Hardcover | 18 December 2007 | Edition Number 4

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Turbulence is a dangerous topic which is often at the origin of serious ?ghts in the scienti?c meetings devoted to it since it represents extremely di?erent points of view, all of which have in common their complexity, as well as an inability to solve the problem. It is even di?cult to agree on what exactly is the problem to be solved. Extremely schematically, two opposing points of view had been adv- ated during these last thirty years: the ?rst one was "statistical", and tried to model the evolution of averaged quantities of the ?ow. This community, which had followed the glorious trail of Taylor and Kolmogorov, believed in the phenomenology of cascades, and strongly disputed the possibility of any coherence or order associated to turbulence. On the other bank of the river standed the "coherence among chaos" community, which considered turbulence from a purely deterministic point of view, by studying either the behaviour of dynamical systems, or the stability of ?ows in various situations. To this community were also associated the experimentalists and computer simulators who sought to identify coherent vortices in ?ows. Situation is more complex now, and the existence of these two camps is less clear. In fact a third point of view pushed by people from the physics community has emerged, with the concepts of renormalization group theory, multifractality, mixing, and Lagrangian approaches.

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"Turbulence in Fluids contains a wealth of information, and its author is a top-tier scientist. ... The book is logically ordered and contains a comprehensive list of 738 references. ... Lesieur's monograph is recommended for those who already know quite a bit about turbulence, for the theoretically inclined, and in particular for those interested in homogeneous turbulence and geophysical flows and their numerical simulation." (Mohamed Gad-El-Hak, Siam Review, Vol. 51 (1), 2009)

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Introduction to Turbulence in Fluid Mechanics	p. 1
Basic Fluid Dynamics	p. 25
Transition to Turbulence	p. 73
Shear Flow Turbulence	p. 121
Fourier Analysis of Homogeneous Turbulence	p. 155
Isotropic Turbulence: Phenomenology and Simulations	p. 187
Analytical Theories and Stochastic Models	p. 237
Two-Dimensional Turbulence	p. 311
Beyond Two-Dimensional Turbulence in GFD	p. 349
Statistical Thermodynamics of Turbulence	p. 393
Statistical Predictability Theory	p. 403
Large-Eddy Simulations	p. 419
Towards "Real World Turbulence"	p. 455
References	p. 509
Index	p. 545
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