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Turbulence Modeling and Vortex Dynamics: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Istanbul, Turkey, 2 - 6 September 1996

O. Boratav, A. Eden and A. Erzan

This volume collects contributions to the workshop on "Turbulence Modeling and Vortex Dynamics, Istanbul", where engineers, physicists, and mathematicians discussed the statistical description of turbulence.

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Format: Hardcover, English, 245 pages
ISBN: 3540630511
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Pub. Date: 1997

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This volume collects contributions to the workshop on "Turbulence Modeling and Vortex Dynamics, Istanbul", where engineers, physicists, and mathematicians discussed the statistical description of turbulence. They cover practical aspects as well as rigorous mathematics. This book will be a source of reference for many years for those working in this most fascinating field of scientific modeling.


Table of Contents

  Hydrodynamic Turbulence: a 19th Century Problem with a Challenge for the 21st Century 1
  Exponents of Bulk Heat Transfer in Convective Turbulence 17
  Hierarchical Structures and Scalings in Turbulence 28
  Intermittency of Passive Scalars in Delta-Correlated Flow: Introduction to Recent Work 53
  A Minimal Model for Intermittency of Passive Scalars 65
  Generalized Scaling in Turbulent Flows 74
  About the Interaction Between Vorticity and Stretching in Coherent Structures 92
  Pressure and Intermittency in the Inertial Range of Turbulence 109
  Time-Periodic Statistical Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations 123
  Local Exact Controllability for the 2-D Navier-Stokes Equations with the Navier Slip Boundary Conditions 148
  Nonexistence of Global Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equations 169
  Applications of Direct Numerical Simulation to Complex Turbulent Flows 182
  Computational Aspects of Three-Dimensional Vortex Element Methods: Applications with Vortex Rings 207
  Boundary-Layer Turbulence Modeling and Vorticity Dynamics: I. A Kangaroo-Process Mixing Model of Boundary-Layer Turbulence 223
  Boundary-Layer Turbulence Modeling and Vorticity Dynamics: II. Towards a Theory of Turbulent Shear Flow? 238

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Turbulence Modeling, Vortex Element Methods


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