The Essence of Turbulence as a Physical Phenomenon With Emphasis on Issues of Paradigmatic Nature /

• Main Author: Tsinober, Arkady (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Fluid mechanics.; Fluids.; Atmospheric sciences.; Statistics .; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

Now in its second edition, this book clearly, concisely and comprehensively outlines the essence of turbulence. In view of the absence of a theory based on first principles and adequate tools to handle the problem, the "essence" of turbulence, i.e. what turbulence really is from a fundamen...

Table of Contents:

• PART 1: INTRODUCTION - The phenomenon and the problem of turbulence
• 1 The phenomenon of turbulence
• 2 The problem of turbulence
• 3 What equations describe turbulence adequately?
• PART 2: ISSUES OF PARADIGMATIC NATURE I - Origins and nature of turbulence
• 4 Origins of turbulence
• 5 Nature of turbulence
• 6 Additional issues of importance related to the use of statistical methods
• PART 3: ISSUES OF PARADIGMATIC NATURE II - Specific features
• 7 The N's of turbulence
• 8 Large Reynolds number behavior, Symmetries, Universality
• 9 Intermittency and Structure(s) of and/in turbulence
• 10 Epiloque
• 11 Apendix - Essential quotations
• Bibliography
• Author index
• Subject index.