A voyage through turbulence /
"Turbulence is widely recognized as one of the outstanding problems of the physical sciences, but it still remains only partially understood despite having attracted the sustained efforts of many leading scientists for well over a century. In A Voyage Through Turbulence we are transported throu...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 / K.R. 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 / D.I. Pullin and Daniel I. Meiron
- 13. Epilogue: a turbulence timeline / [Peter Davidson, Yukio Kaneda, Keith Moffatt and Katepalli Sreenivasan].