●Preface
Contributors
1 Small-Scale Statistics and Structure of Turbulence - in the Light of High Resolution Direct Numerical Simulation
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Background supporting the idea of universality
1.3 Examination of the ideas underlying the 4/5 law
1.4 Intermittency of dissipation rate and velocity gradients
1.5 Local structure
1.6 Inertial subrange
1.7 Concluding remarks
References
2 Structure and Dynamics of Vorticity in Turbulence
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Basic relations
2.3 Temporal growth of vorticity
2,4 Spatial structure of the turbulent vorticity field
2.5 Vorticity statistics in turbulence
References
3 Passive Scalar Transport in Turbulence: A Computational Perspective
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Computational perspective
3.3 Background theory
3.4 Approach to low-order asymptotic state
3.5 High-order statistics: fine-scale structure and intermittency
3.6 Concluding remarks
References
4 A Lagrangian View of Turbulent Dispersion and Mixing
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Single particle motion and absolute dispersion
4.3 Two particle motion and relative dispersion
4.4 n-particle statistics
4.5 Conclusions
References
5 The Eddies and Scales of Wall Turbulence
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Background
5.3 Scales of coherent structures in wall turbulence
5.4 Relationship between statistical fine-scales and eddy scales
5.5 Summary and conclusions
References
6 Dynamics of Wall-Bounded Turbulence
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The classical theory of wall-bounded turbulence
6.3 The dynamics of the near-wall region
6.4 The logarithmic and outer layers
6.5 Coherent structures and dynamical systems
6.6 Conclusions
References
7 Recent Progress in Stratified Turbulence
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Scaling, cascade and spectra
7.3 Numerical simulations
7.4 Laboratory experiments
7.5 Field data
7.6 Conclusions
Appendix
References
8 Rapidly-Rotating Turbulence: An Experimental Perspective
8.1 The evidence of the early experiments
8.2 Background: inertial waves and the formation of Taylor columns
8.3 The spontaneous growth of Taylor columns from compact eddies at low Ro
8.4 Anisotropic structuring via nonlinear wave interactions: resonant triads
8.5 Recent experimental evidence on inertial waves and columnar vortex formation
8.6 The cyclone-anticyclone asymmetry: speculative cartoons
8.7 The rate of energy decay
8.8 Concluding remarks
References
9 MHD Dynamos and Turbulence
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Dynamo
9.3 Mean field
9.4 Conclusions
References
10 How Similar is Quantum Turbulence to Classical Turbulence?
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Preliminary remarks on decaying QT
10.3 Comparisons between QT and HIT: energy spectrum
10.4 Decaying vorticity
10.5 Decay of HIT when the shape of the energy spectra matters
10.6 Effective viscosity
10.7 Conclusions
References
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