Turbulence in Fluids
Turbulence is a dangerous topic which is often at the origin of serious—ghts in the scientific meetings devoted to it since it represents extremely different points of view, all of which have in common their complexity, as well as an inability to solve the problem. It is even difficult to agree on what exactly is the problem to be solved. Extremely schematically, two opposing points of view had been adv- ated during these last thirty years: the first one was “statistical”, and tried to model the evolution of averaged quantities of the flow. This community, which had followed the glorious trail of Taylor and Kolmogorov, believed in the phenomenology of cascades, and strongly disputed the possibility of any coherence or order associated to turbulence. On the other bank of the river standed the “coherence among chaos” community, which considered turbulence from a purely deterministic point of view, by studying either the behaviour of dynamical systems, or the stability of flows in various situations. To this community were also associated the experimentalists and computer simulators who sought to identify coherent vortices in flows. Situation is more complex now, and the existence of these two camps is less clear. In fact a third point of view pushed by people from the physics community has emerged, with the concepts of renormalization group theory, multifractality, mixing, and Lagrangian approaches.
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Turbulence in Fluids
Turbulence is a dangerous topic which is often at the origin of serious—ghts in the scientific meetings devoted to it since it represents extremely different points of view, all of which have in common their complexity, as well as an inability to solve the problem. It is even difficult to agree on what exactly is the problem to be solved. Extremely schematically, two opposing points of view had been adv- ated during these last thirty years: the first one was “statistical”, and tried to model the evolution of averaged quantities of the flow. This community, which had followed the glorious trail of Taylor and Kolmogorov, believed in the phenomenology of cascades, and strongly disputed the possibility of any coherence or order associated to turbulence. On the other bank of the river standed the “coherence among chaos” community, which considered turbulence from a purely deterministic point of view, by studying either the behaviour of dynamical systems, or the stability of flows in various situations. To this community were also associated the experimentalists and computer simulators who sought to identify coherent vortices in flows. Situation is more complex now, and the existence of these two camps is less clear. In fact a third point of view pushed by people from the physics community has emerged, with the concepts of renormalization group theory, multifractality, mixing, and Lagrangian approaches.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781402064340 |
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| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands |
| Publication date: | 01/30/2008 |
| Series: | Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications , #84 |
| Edition description: | Fourth Edition 2008 |
| Pages: | 563 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d) |
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