This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Eighth Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows held at the Technical University of Munich, 9-11 September 1991. The first of these biennial international symposia was held at the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, USA, in 1977; subsequent symposia have been held at Imperial College, London, England; the University of California, Davis, USA; the University of Karlsruhe, Ger many; Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France; and Stanford University, California, USA. The purpose of this series of symposia is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of new developments in the field of turbulence, especially as related to shear flows of importance in engineering and geo physics. From the 330 extended abstracts submitted for this symposium, 145 papers were presented orally and 60 as posters. Out of these, we have selected twenty-four papers for inclusion in this volume, each of which has been revised and extended in accordance with the editors' recommendations. The following four theme areas were selected after consideration of the quality of the contributions, the importance of the area, and the selection made in earlier volumes: - wall flows, - separated flows, - compressibility effects, - buoyancy, rotation, and curvature effects. As in the past, each section corresponding to the above areas begins with an introduction by an authority in the field that places the individual contributions in context with one another and with related research.
Editors and Affiliations
Lehrstuhl für Strömungsmechanik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany
Franz Durst
Lehrstuhl für Fluidmechanik, Technische Universität München, München 2, Germany
Rainer Friedrich
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK
Brian E. Launder
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Frank W. Schmidt
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Ulrich Schumann
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK
James H. Whitelaw
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Turbulent Shear Flows 8
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers from the Eighth International Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Munich, Germany, September 9 – 11, 1991
Editors: Franz Durst, Rainer Friedrich, Brian E. Launder, Frank W. Schmidt, Ulrich Schumann, James H. Whitelaw