Marine Turbulence Theories, Observations, and Models [Paperback]

This book gives a comprehensive overview of marine turbulence and mixing for students, scientists, engineers.This is the first book to give a comprehensive overview of measurement techniques and theories for marine turbulence and mixing processes. The book includes a CD-ROM containing source codes of turbulence models and observational data sets from all over the world. Written by a team of 53 world-leading experts, Marine Turbulence represents a rich source of data and methods for students and scientists in oceanography, hydrology, limnology, and meteorology, as well as marine, naval and civil engineers.This is the first book to give a comprehensive overview of measurement techniques and theories for marine turbulence and mixing processes. The book includes a CD-ROM containing source codes of turbulence models and observational data sets from all over the world. Written by a team of 53 world-leading experts, Marine Turbulence represents a rich source of data and methods for students and scientists in oceanography, hydrology, limnology, and meteorology, as well as marine, naval and civil engineers.Intended for analyzing marine turbulence and mixing processes, this comprehensive overview of measurement techniques and theories includes a CD-ROM containing source codes of global turbulence models and observational data. Fifty-three professional contributors provide a comprehensive source of information for students and scientists in oceanography, hydrology, limnology, and meteorology, as well as marine, naval and civil engineers.List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Joel H. Ferviger - Obituary; Part I. On the Physics of Turbulence; 1. Prologue; 2. Turbulence: its origins and structure; 3. A novel two-equation turbulence closure for high Reynolds numbers: homogenous stratified shear layers; 4. A novel two-equation turbulence closure for high Reynolds numbers: spatially non-uniform turbulence; 5. on some analogies between high-Reynolds-number turbulence and a vortex glӷ