A Voyage Through Turbulence

Herausgeber: Davidson, Peter A.; Moffatt, Keith; Kaneda, Yukio

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Biographies of twelve of the leading personalities in turbulence research chart the development of the subject from Reynolds onward.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 803g
• ISBN-13: 9780521198684
• ISBN-10: 0521198682
• Artikelnr.: 33868432

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Preface Peter Davidson, Yukio Kaneda, Keith Moffatt and Katepalli Sreenivasan
1. Osborne Reynolds: a turbulent life Brian Launder and Derek Jackson
2. Prandtl and the Göttingen school Eberhard Bodenschatz and Michael Eckert
3. Theodore von Kármán A. Leonard and N. Peters
4. G. I. Taylor: the inspiration behind the Cambridge school Katepalli Sreenivasan
5. Lewis Fry Richardson Roberto Benzi
6. The Russian school Gregory Falkovich
7. Stanley Corrsin Charles Meneveau and James J. Riley
8. George Batchelor: the post-war renaissance of research in turbulence H. K. Moffatt
9. A. A. Townsend Ivan Marusic and Timothy B. Nickels
10. Robert H. Kraichnan Gregory Eyink and Uriel Frisch
11. Satish Dhawan Roddam Narasimha
12. Philip G. Saffman Dale I. Pullin and Daniel I. Meiron
13. Epilogue: a turbulence timeline Peter Davidson, Yukio Kaneda, Keith Moffatt and Katepalli Sreenivasan.