Progress in Turbulence II: Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2005 [Hardcover]

Besides turbulence there is hardly any other scientific topic which has been considered as a prominent scientific challenge for such a long time. The special interest in turbulence is not only based on it being a difficult scientific problem but also on its meaning in the technical world and our daily life. This carefully edited book comprises recent basic research as well as research related to the applications of turbulence. Therefore, both leading engineers and physicists working in the field of turbulence were invited to the iTi Conference on Turbulence held in Bad Zwischenahn, Gemany 25th - 28th of September 2005. Discussed topics include, for example, scaling laws and intermittency, thermal convection, boundary layers at large Reynolds numbers, isotropic turbulence, stochastic processes, passive and active scalars, coherent structures, numerical simulations, and related subjects.Fundamentals.- What Rayleigh-B?nard, Taylor-Couette and Pipe Flows have in Common.- Small-Scale Statistics in High-Resolution Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence.- Numerical Investigation of Turbulent Jet Under Random Waves.- Scale-by-Scale Assessments of the Approach to Isotropy.- On the Decay of Isotropic Turbulence.- Oscillatory Relaxation Towards Turbulent States.- An Exact Solution for the Forced Burgers Equation.- Consistent Invariant Modelling of Axially Rotating Pipe Flow.- Small-Scale Anisotropy in MHD Turbulence Under Strong Uniform Magnetic Field.- Scaling in an Ensemble of Stochastic Forced Point Vortices.- Multiplier Statistics Explained by Stochastic Cascade Processes.- DNS and Scaling Laws of a Turbulent Channel Flow with Streamwise Rotation.- Experiments.- Characterization of a Turbulent Vortex Using Phase Averaged PIV Data.- Experimental Detection of the New Phenomenon of Turbulent Thermal Diffusion.- Anemometry in Snow Particle Flows.- Numerical and Experimental Investigations of the Dynamics and Structure of the Recirculation Zone in a Coaxial Jet Mixelã›