Homogeneous Turbulence Dynamics [Hardcover]

This book summarizes the most recent theoretical, computational, and experimental results dealing with homogeneous turbulence dynamics.The book provides a unique and unified description of the recent advances in the field of turbulence dynamics. The emphasis is on homogeneous flows, including several interactions (rotation, stratification, shear, shock waves, acoustic waves, and more) which are pertinent to many applications fields from aerospace engineering to astrophysics and Earth sciences.The book provides a unique and unified description of the recent advances in the field of turbulence dynamics. The emphasis is on homogeneous flows, including several interactions (rotation, stratification, shear, shock waves, acoustic waves, and more) which are pertinent to many applications fields from aerospace engineering to astrophysics and Earth sciences.This book summarizes the most recent theoretical, computational and experimental results dealing with homogeneous turbulence dynamics. A large class of flows is covered: flows governed by anisotropic production mechanisms (e.g. shear flows) and flows without production but dominated by waves (e.g. homogeneous rotating or stratified turbulence). Compressible turbulent flows are also considered. In each case, main trends are illustrated using computational and experimental results, while both linear and nonlinear theories and closures are discussed. Details about linear theories (e.g. Rapid Distortion Theory and variants) and nonlinear closures (e.g. EDQNM) are provided in dedicated chapters, following a fully unified approach. The emphasis is on homogeneous flows, including several interactions (rotation, stratification, shear, shock waves, acoustic waves, and more) which are pertinent to many applications fields  from aerospace engineering to astrophysics and Earth sciences.1. Introduction; 2. Statistical analysis of homogeneous turbulent flows: reminders; 3. Incompressible homogeneous isotropic turbulence; 4. Incomprl£`