The physics of fluid turbulence
Abstract
The present, comprehensive treatment of the physics of fluid turbulence discusses the semiempirical viewpoint for these phenomena, as well as the fundamental approach represented by the Navier-Stokes equations in solenoidal form and the Fourier analysis of turbulent velocity fields. Attention is then given to recent developments in the study of turbulence, the statistical formulation of the general problem, the relationship between renormalized perturbation theory and the turbulence closure problem, and the role of the direct-interaction approximation in renormalized perturbation theories of the first kind. Renormalization group theories, coherent structures, and the Lagrangian and Eulerian frameworks for turbulent diffusion are then discussed, as well as coherent structures, non-Newtonian fluid turbulence, and the numerical simulation of turbulence.
- Publication:
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Oxford
- Pub Date:
- December 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990cp...book.....M
- Keywords:
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- Fluid Dynamics;
- Turbulence;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Flow Distortion;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Nonnewtonian Fluids;
- Numerical Flow Visualization;
- Perturbation Theory;
- Renormalization Group Methods;
- Shear Flow;
- Statistical Mechanics;
- Turbulence Models;
- Turbulent Diffusion;
- Turbulent Flow;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer