The physics of fluid turbulence /

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Author / Creator:McComb, W. D.
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Description:xxiv, 572 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford engineering science series 25
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1151070
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ISBN:0198561601
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Semi-Empirical Picture of Turbulent Shear Flow
  • 2. The Fundamental Approach
  • 3. Some Recent Developments in the Study of Turbulence
  • 4. Statistical Formulation of the General Problem
  • 5. Renormalized Perturbation Theory and the Turbulence Closure Problem
  • 6. Renormalized Perturbation Theories of the First Kind
  • 7. Renormalized Perturbation Theories of the Second Kind
  • 8. An Assessment of Renormalized Perturbation Theories
  • 9. Renormalization Group Theories
  • 10. Numerical Simulation of Turbulence
  • 11. Coherent Structures
  • 12. Turbulent Diffusion: The Lagrangian Picture
  • 13. Turbulent Diffusion: The Eulerian Picture
  • 14. Non-Newtonian Fluid Turbulence