Editors:
- Conceptual and problematic aspects
- Misconceptions and unresolved issues rather than conventional formalistic aspects and models
- Emphasis on physical phenomena and observations
Part of the book series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (FMIA, volume 92)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is a second completely revised edition of An Informal Introduction to Turbulence. The main emphasis is on conceptual and problematic aspects, physical phenomena, observations, misconceptions and unresolved issues rather than on conventional formalistic aspects, models, etc. Apart from the obvious fundamental importance of turbulent flows such an emphasis is a consequence of the view that without corresponding progress in fundamental aspects there is little chance for progress in any applications such as drag reduction, mixing, control and modeling of turbulence. More generally there is a desperate need for physical fundamentals of the technological processes in which turbulence plays a central role.
The conceptual issues are made dominant in this second edition. This required to address in more detail those misconceptions which are the consequence of the profound difficulties of the subject and which travel from one publication to another. A new chapter titled Analogies, misconceptions and ill defined concepts was added along with a number of new sections on such topics as ergodicity, Eulerian versus Lagrangian descriptions, on validation of theories, on anomalous scaling and ill posedness of the concept of inertial range, on the Tennekes and Lumlety balance, and mathematics versus turbulence among others. Many of these are to a large extent a consequence of the series of lectures delivered in the Imperial College London in 2007 and 2008 in the frame of Marie Curie Chair in Fundamental and Conceptual Aspects of Turbulent Flows which was held by the author during the period June 1, 2006 – May 31, 2009.
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
“The intention of the book under review is to serve as an introduction to a broad readership with an interest in turbulence. … the discussion is better suited to scientists in the field … . Perhaps of most interest to the mathematically inclined reader is the discussion of ‘turbulence versus mathematics and vice versa’ … .” (Govind Menon, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 i)Editors and Affiliations
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Tel Aviv University, Fac. Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel
Arkady Tsinober
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Informal Conceptual Introduction to Turbulence
Book Subtitle: Second Edition of An Informal Introduction to Turbulence
Editors: Arkady Tsinober
Series Title: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3174-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3173-0Published: 05 September 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3038-0Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3174-7Published: 29 August 2009
Series ISSN: 0926-5112
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0056
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 464
Topics: Engineering, general