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Fluid Mechanics and the Environment: Dynamical Approaches

A Collection of Research Papers Written in Commemoration of the 60th Birthday of Sidney Leibovich

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2001

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  1. John L. Lumley

    1. Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 566)

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Point Vortex Models and the Dynamics of Strong Vortices in the Atmosphere and Oceans

    • Hassan Aref, Mark A. Stremler
    Pages 1-17

  3. Bubble Disconnection: Self-Similarity and Cascading Physics

    • Oluş N. Boratav, Yi-Ju Chen, Paul H. Steen
    Pages 19-34

  4. Implicit Multigrid Computation of Unsteady Flows with Applications to Aeroelasticity

    • David A. Caughey
    Pages 35-62

  5. Second-Harmonic Resonance with Parametric Excitation and Damping

    • A.D.D. Craik, H. Okamoto, H.R. Allen
    Pages 63-89

  6. Bubble and Temperature Fields in Langmuir Circulation

    • David Farmer, Svein Vagle, Ming Li
    Pages 91-105

  7. Computing Periodic Orbits

    • John Guckenheimer1
    Pages 117-119

  8. Dynamics of Layers in Geophysical Flows

    • J.C.R. Hunt, M. Galmiche
    Pages 121-150

  9. Radiative Transport in Anisotropic Media

    • Abraham Kribus, Chongshan Zhang, Rami Ben-Zvi
    Pages 151-162

  10. Vortex-Wake Pollution: A Problem in Fluid Mechanics

    • Sanjiva K. Lele
    Pages 163-181

  11. Turbulent Bursts in Couette—Taylor Flow

    • Philip S. Marcus
    Pages 183-200

  12. Surface-Wave Effects on Winds and Currents in Marine Boundary Layers

    • James C. McWilliams, Peter P. Sullivan
    Pages 201-224

  13. Synchronised Behaviour in Three Coupled Faraday Disk Homopolar Dynamos

    • Irene M. Moroz
    Pages 225-238

  14. Large-Eddy Simulation Using Projection onto Local Basis Functions

    • S.B. Pope
    Pages 239-265

  15. Low-Dimensional Dynamical Model of a Turbulent Boundary Layer over a Compliant Surface: Preliminary Results

    • Dietmar Rempfer, Peter Blossey, Louise Parsons, John Lumley
    Pages 267-283

  16. Is High Reynolds Number Turbulence Locally Isotropic?

    • X. Shen, Z. Warhaft
    Pages 285-293

  17. Observations and Theories of Langmuir Circulation: A Story of Mixing

    • Jerome A. Smith
    Pages 295-314

  18. Low Dimensional Models with Varying Parameters: a Model Problem and Flow Through a Diffuser with Variable Angle

    • Troy Smith, Philip Holmes
    Pages 315-336

  19. Surfactant Scavenging by Microbubble Clouds: Consequences for Capillary Wave Damping

    • Andrew J. Szeri, Ryan L. Stefan, John R. Saylor
    Pages 337-352

  20. A Spectral Domain Decomposition Method and Its Application to the Simulation of Shear-Stratified Turbulence

    • K.L. Tse, A. Mahalov, B. Nicolaenko, J. Fernando
    Pages 353-378
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About this book

The papers in this volume were written by his students and colleagues to honor Sidney Leibovich, Samuel B. Eckert Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, in commemoration of his 60th birthday, 2 April 1999. They were presented at a symposium held at Cornell, 23 and 24 August 1999. Sid obtained his Bachelor of Science degree with honors from The California Institute of Technology in 1961, graduating first in his class. He came to Cornell to work with Geoffrey Ludford on Magnetohydrodynamics, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1965 in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He spent a year at University College, London as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, and returned to Cornell as an Assistant Professor. He has been here ever since, and is currently Director of the Sibley School. Since returning to Cornell, Sid has concentrated on rotating fluids and n- linear waves, in various combinations and applications, producing some 3.2 - pers a year with an applied-mathematical bent. In particular this interest led to both Langmuir circulation and vortex breakdown, two areas in which Sid has had enormous influence, and both, of course, examples of rotating fluids interacting with waves. It was impossible to work in this area without being distracted by the study of the nonlinear dispersive and dissipative waves themselves, and Sid has made substantial contributions in this area.

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  • Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    John L. Lumley

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