Intermittency in Turbulent Flows

by J. C. Vassilicos

Overview

The dynamics of many nonlinear systems gravitate around a few common central themes: intermittency, order/coherence and disorder. Intermittency may be the universal outcome of a large class of nonlinear systems; however, the universality properties of specific nonlinear systems remain open questions. This volume consists of articles by leading figures who all participated in a workshop held at the Newton Institute in Cambridge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521159425
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/25/2010
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Control of intermittency in near-wall turbulent flow P. N. Bossey and J. L. Lumley; 3. Sil'nikov chaos in fluid flows T. Mullin, A. Juel and T. Peacock; 4. Phase turbulence and heteroclinic cycles F. H. Busse, O. Brausch, M. Jaletzky and W. Pesch; 5. ODE approach for the enstrophy of a class of 3D Euler flows K. Ohkitani; 6. Scale separation and regularity of the Navier–Stokes equations C. R. Doering and J. D. Gibbon; 7. Turbulent advection and breakdown of the Lagrangian flow K. Gawedski; 8. Growth of magnetic fluctuations in a turbulent flow G. Falkovich; 9. Non-homogeneous scalings in boundary layer turbulence S. Ciliberto, E. Lévêque and G. Ruiz Chavarria; 10. Turbulent wakes of 3D fractal grids D. Queiros-Conde and J. C. Vassilicos; 11. Vorticity statistics in the 2D enstrophy cascade, and tracer dispersion in the Batchelor regime M.-C. Jullien, P. Castiglione, J. Paret and P. Tabeling; 12. On the origins of intermittency in real turbulent flows M. Kholmyansky and A. Tsinober; 13. Scaling and structure in isotropic turbulence J. Jiménez, F. Moisy, P. Tabeling and H. Willaime; 14. Capturing turbulent intermittency W. van de Water, A. Staicu and M.-C. Guegan; 15. The exit-time approach for Lagrangian and Eulerian turbulence A. Vulpiani, L. Biferale, G. Boffetta, A. Celani, M. Cencini and D. Vergni; 16. Statistical geometry and Lagrangian dynamics in turbulence M. Chertkov. A. Pumir and B. I. Shraiman; 17. Flow structure visualization by a low-pressure vortex S. Kida, H. Miura and T. Adachi.

Editorial Reviews

Review of the hardback: '… those who would like to have in a single place a survey of the many questions involved in the relation between statistics and structure in turbulence, will find in it relevant material that is not easily found elsewhere.' Javier Jiménez, European Journal of Mechanical B-Fluids

Review of the hardback: '… worthwhile to read … to experience the dynamics in this field and, perhaps, become engaged by it.' Siefgried Grossman, Measurement, Science & Technology

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