Turbulence Modeling and Vortex Dynamics: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Istanbul, Turkey, 2–6 September 1996

Victor L’vov, Itamar Procaccia (auth.), Oluş Boratav, Alp Eden, Ayse Erzan (eds.)3540630511, 9783540630517

This volume collects contributions to the workshop on “Turbulence Modeling and Vortex Dynamics, Istanbul”, where engineers, physicists, and mathematicians discussed the statistical description of turbulence. They cover practical aspects as well as rigorous mathematics. This book will be a source of reference for many years for those working in this most fascinating field of scientific modeling.

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Table of contents :
Hydrodynamic turbulence: a 19th century problem with a challenge for the 21st century….Pages 1-16
Exponents of bulk heat transfer in convective turbulence….Pages 17-27
Hierarchical structures and scalings in turbulence….Pages 28-52
Intermittency of passive scalars in delta-correlated flow: Introduction to recent work….Pages 53-64
A minimal model for intermittency of passive scalars….Pages 65-73
Generalized scaling in turbulent flows….Pages 74-91
About the interaction between vorticity and stretching in coherent structures….Pages 92-108
Pressure and intermittency in the inertial range of turbulence….Pages 109-122
Time-periodic statistical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations….Pages 123-147
Local exact controllability for the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations with the Navier slip boundary conditions….Pages 148-168
Nonexistence of global solutions to nonlinear wave equations….Pages 169-181
Applications of direct numerical simulation to complex turbulent flows….Pages 182-206
Computational aspects of three-dimensional Vortex Element Methods: Applications with vortex rings….Pages 207-222
Boundary-layer turbulence modeling and vorticity dynamics: I. A kangaroo-process mixing model of boundary-layer turbulence….Pages 223-237
Boundary-layer turbulence modeling and vorticity dynamics: II. Towards a theory of turbulent shear flow?….Pages 238-241