Overview
- For the first time the interdisciplinary aspects of turbulence in geophysics, astrophysics, and engineering are brought together in a coherent way
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 756)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
What do combustion engines, fusion reactors, weather forecast, ocean flows, our sun, and stellar explosions in outer space have in common? Of course, the physics and the length and time scales are vastly different in all cases, but it is also well known that in all of them, on some relevant length scales, the material flows that govern the dynamical and/or secular evolution of the systems are chaotic and often unpredictable: they are said to be turbulent.
The interdisciplinary aspects of turbulence are brought together in this volume containing chapters written by experts from very different fields, including geophysics, astrophysics, and engineering. It covers several subjects on which considerable progress was made during the last decades, from questions concerning the very nature of turbulence to some practical applications. These subjects include:
a basic introduction into turbulence, statistical mechanics and nonlinear dynamics, turbulent convection in stars, atmospheric turbulence in the context of numerical weather predictions, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, turbulent combustion with application to supernova explosions, and finally the numerical treatment of the multi-scale character of turbulence.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Turbulence
Editors: Wolfgang Hillebrandt, Friedrich Kupka
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78961-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-78960-4Published: 20 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09773-7Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-78961-1Published: 25 October 2008
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 340
Number of Illustrations: 102 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complex Systems, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Atmospheric Sciences, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems