Turbulent Flows

Graduate text on turbulent flow, an important topic in fluid mechanics.

Stephen B. Pope (Author)

9780521598866, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 10 August 2000

802 pages, 246 b/w illus. 33 tables 384 exercises
24.7 x 17.5 x 3.8 cm, 1.58 kg

'It was a pleasure to read this important book … exceptionally clear presentation, together with an often penetrating critique of both classical methods and recent developments in the theory and modelling of turbulent flows … I strongly recommend this book to advanced students of fluid mechanics, to their teachers and to all researchers, engineers and others with a professional interest in turbulent flows.' K. N. C. Bray, Measurement, Science & Technology

This is a graduate text on turbulent flows, an important topic in fluid dynamics. It is up-to-date, comprehensive, designed for teaching, and is based on a course taught by the author at Cornell University for a number of years. The book consists of two parts followed by a number of appendices. Part I provides a general introduction to turbulent flows, how they behave, how they can be described quantitatively, and the fundamental physical processes involved. Part II is concerned with different approaches for modelling or simulating turbulent flows. The necessary mathematical techniques are presented in the appendices. This book is primarily intended as a graduate level text in turbulent flows for engineering students, but it may also be valuable to students in applied mathematics, physics, oceanography and atmospheric sciences, as well as researchers and practising engineers.

Preface
Nomenclature
Part I. Fundamentals: 1. Introduction
2. The equations of fluid motion
3. Statistical description of turbulence
4. Mean flow equations
5. Free shear flows
6. The scales of turbulent motion
7. Wall flows
Part II. Modelling and Simulation: 8. Modelling and simulation
9. Direct numerical simulation
10. Turbulent viscosity models
11. Reynolds-stress and related models
12. PDF models
13. Large-eddy simulation
Part III. Appendices
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Mechanical engineering [TGB], Fluid mechanics [PHDF]