Turbulence structure and vortex dynamics / edited by J.C.R. Hunt and J.C. Vassilicos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunt, Julian C. R.

Vassilicos, J. C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turbulence.

Vortex-motion.

Physical Description:

xiii, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2000]

Summary:

The articles in this volume, derived from a symposium held at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, examine a number of key questions that have engaged turbulence researchers for many years. Most involve mathematical analysis, but some describe numerical simulations and experimental results that focus on these questions. However, all are addressed to a wide cross-section of the turbulence community, namely mathematicians, engineers and scientists.

Contents:

1. Motion and Expansion of a Viscous Vortex Ring: Elliptical Slowing Down and Diffusive Expansion / Yasuhide Fukumoto, H.K. Moffatt 1

2. Stretching and Compression of Vorticity in the 3D Euler Equations / J.D. Gibbon, B. Galanti, R.M. Kerr 23

3. Structure of a New Family of Stretched Non-Axisymmetric Vortices / Stephane Le Dizes 35

4. Core Dynamics of a Coherent Structure: a Prototypical Physical-Space Cascade Mechanism? / Dhoorjaty S. Pradeep, Fazle Hussain 54

5. Fundamental Instabilities in Spatially-Developing Wing Wakes and Temporally-Developing Vortex Pairs / C.H.K. Williamson, T. Leweke, G.D. Miller 83

6. Vortex Lines and Vortex Tangles in Superfluid Helium / Carlo F. Barenghi 104

7. Evolution of Localized Packets of Vorticity and Scalar in Turbulence / A. Leonard 127

8. Vortical Structure and Modeling of Turbulence / E.A. Novikov 140

9. The Issue of Local Isotropy of Velocity and Scalar Turbulent Fields / Z. Warhaft 144

10. Near-Singular Flow Structure: Dissipation and Education / J.C. Vassilicos 152

11. Vortex Stretching versus Production of Strain/Dissipation / Arkaday Tsinober 164

12. Dynamics and Statistics of Vortical Eddies in Turbulence / J.C.R. Hunt 192

13. Stability of Vortex Structures in a Rotating Frame / Claude Cambon 244

14. LES and Vortex Topology in Shear and Rotating Flows / Marcel Lesieur, Pierre Comte, Olivier Metais 269

15. Conditional Mode Elimination with Asymptotic Freedom for Isotropic Turbulence at large Reynolds Numbers / David McComb, Craig Johnston 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0521781310

OCLC:

45437772