Turbulence and Random Processes in Fluid Mechanics [Paperback]

Fluid flow turbulence is a phenomenon of great importance in many fields of engineering and science.Recent developments in the field of chaos and its applications to turbulent flow are included in the second edition of a text that continues to present the fundamental concepts and basic methods of fluid flow turbulence.Recent developments in the field of chaos and its applications to turbulent flow are included in the second edition of a text that continues to present the fundamental concepts and basic methods of fluid flow turbulence.In the second edition of their successful textbook, Professors Landahl and Mollo-Christensen have taken the opportunity to include recent developments in the field of chaos and its applications to turbulent flow. This timely update continues the original theme of the book: presenting the fundamental concepts and the basic methods of fluid flow turbulence that enable the reader to follow the literature and understand current research. The emphasis on the dynamic processes that create and maintain turbulent flows gives this book an original approach.1. Introduction with historical notes; 2. Characteristic scales and nondimensional parameters; 3. Basic equations; 4. Statistical tools for description of turbulence; 5. Examples of homogeneous turbulent flows; 6. Waves; 7. Instability and transition to turbulence; 8. Shear flow turbulence structure; 9. Turbulence modeling and closure schemes; 10. Aerodynamic noise; 11. Convective transport; 12. Numerical simulation of turbulence. This small book is a gem that should be widely appreciated...It is clean, useful, and almost elegant in its confident approach to the subject. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ...an easy to read introduction to turbulence, instabilities and transitions....successfully reviews a large class of nonlinear phenomena in fluids (solitons, deterministic chaos, transitions, fully developed turbulence) without many technical details....provides a good biblC6