Homogeneous turbulence dynamics.9780521855488 Homogeneous turbulence dynamics. Sagaut, Pierre and Claude Cambon. Cambridge U. Pr. 2008 463 pages $120.00 Hardcover TA357 Still a hot topic for research in fluid mechanics, due in part to its applicability to engineering, geophysics and astrophysics astrophysics, application of the theories and methods of physics to the study of stellar structure, stellar evolution, the origin of the solar system, and related problems of cosmology. , this field and its related tools lends itself well to the study of any nonlinear chaotic phenomena. Sagaut (mechanics, U. Pierre et Marie Curie Curie (kürē`), family of French scientists. Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. ) and Cambon (mechanics, French National Center for Scientific Research) draw upon their significant research in their examples, and consider the needs of the practitioner in their organization, starting with an explanation of the statistical analysis of homogeneous turbulent flows and moving on to incompressible in·com·press·i·ble adj. Impossible to compress; resisting compression: mounds of incompressible garbage. in homogeneous isotropic Refers to properties that do not differ no matter which direction is measured. For example, an isotropic antenna radiates almost the same power in all directions. In practice, antennas cannot be 100% isotropic. turbulence, including pure rotation (anisotropic Refers to properties that differ based on the direction that is measured. For example, an anisotropic antenna is a directional antenna; the power level is not the same in all directions. Contrast with isotropic. ) strain, pure shear, buoyancy and stable stratification. They cover couples effects (rotation, stratification, strain and shear) as well as isotropic turbulence's shock interactions and perturbations. They close with descriptions of linear interactions and theories and anisotropic nonlinear triadic closures. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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