Fundamentals of Turbulent Flows

A succinct introduction to turbulence, demonstrating how fundamental principles translate into high-fidelity numerical simulations.

Parviz Moin (Author), W. H. Ronald Chan (Author)

9781009431408, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 December 2024

292 pages
26.1 x 18.2 x 2 cm, 0.79 kg

'I've been teaching our graduate level turbulence class for 16 years. I'm excited to adopt this textbook and think it will help me better teach this challenging material. It covers all the material I like to present in an organized and clear way. I'm also looking forward to supplementing the assignments I use with the exercises and case studies available from the book.' Steve Gorrell, Brigham Young University

This succinct introduction to the fundamental physical principles of turbulence provides a modern perspective through statistical theory, experiments, and high-fidelity numerical simulations. It describes classical concepts of turbulence and offers new computational perspectives on their interpretation based on numerical simulation databases, introducing students to phenomena at a wide range of scales. Unique, practical, multi-part physics-based exercises use realistic data of canonical turbulent flows developed by the Stanford Center for Turbulence Research to equip students with hands-on experience with practical and predictive analysis tools. Over 20 case studies spanning real-world settings such as wind farms and airplanes, color illustrations, and color-coded pedagogy support student learning. Accompanied by downloadable datasets, and solutions for instructors, this is the ideal introduction for students in aerospace, civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering and the physical sciences studying a graduate-level one-semester course on turbulence, advanced fluid mechanics, and turbulence simulation.

Preface
1. Overview of turbulent flows
2. Governing equations
3. Energetics
4. Spectral description of turbulence
5. The scales of turbulent motion
6. Free-shear flows
7. Turbulence near a wall
8. Modeling and prediction of turbulent flows
9. Numerical considerations for high-fidelity simulations of turbulent flows.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF]