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The main difficulty of our subject stems from the fact that the spreading of any pollutants in the atmosphere or in various bodies of water takes place in a flow field that is almost invariably turbulent. Turbulent motion has proved to be one of the most untractable problems of the physical sciences, a full understanding of which is not in sight yet. Important progress has been made in recent decades, however, and some of the basic concepts of turbulence theory are now well established. Without attempting here a detailed discussion of turbulent flow, we shall give a brief glossary of the fundamental physical concepts involved because they will frequently enter our later discussions. For a more detailed introduction to the subject the reader is referred to Batchelor (1953), Townsend (1956), Schubauer and Tchen (1959), Lin (1959), Hinze (1959) and Lumley and Panofsky (1964).
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Csanady, G.T. (1973). Turbulent Diffusion: Elementary Statistical Theory and Atmospheric Applications. In: Turbulent Diffusion in the Environment. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2527-0_3
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