An informal introduction to turbulence / by Arkady Tsinober.
This book is an informal introduction to the turbulence of fluids. The emphasis is placed on turbulence as a physical phenomenon. It addresses the unresolved issues, misconceptions, controversies, and major problems of the turbulence of fluids rather than the conventional formalistic elements and mo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[2004, 2001]
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| Series: | Fluid mechanics and its applications ;
v. 63. |
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| Summary: | This book is an informal introduction to the turbulence of fluids. The emphasis is placed on turbulence as a physical phenomenon. It addresses the unresolved issues, misconceptions, controversies, and major problems of the turbulence of fluids rather than the conventional formalistic elements and models. Little use is made of complicated formalisms; instead the emphasis is placed on an essentially informal qualitative form. The scope of the book is focused on the purely basic aspects of the turbulent flows of incompressible fluids. This book will certainly be of interest and use to graduate students as well as scientists active in fields where the turbulence of fluids is of importance. The book is intentionally written to appeal to a broad readership with the aim of making the turbulence of fluids interesting and comprehensible to the interested engineer. |
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| Item Description: | "The book is based in part on the graduate course delivered by the author in the Department of Fluid Mechanics, Tel Aviv University, and in part on lectures delivered by the author in Delft Technical University, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – Lausanne and Zurich, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Paris VII and in Laboratoire Modélisation en Mécanique, Université Paris VI, and in part on its revision and updating on the basis of the latest work during the period of the Programme on Turbulence held in the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, January 6 - July 2, 1999 and the research Program on Physics of Hydrodynamics of Turbulence held in the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, January 31 - June 30, 2000."--Page xv. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-311) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780306483844 030648384X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |