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Author Ting, David.

Title Basics of engineering turbulence / David S.-K. Ting.

Imprint London, UK L : Academic Press, 2016.

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Note Includes index.
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Part 1 -- Some Basics of Flow Turbulence; Chapter 1 -- Introducing Flow Turbulence; Chapter Objectives; Nomenclature; 1.1 -- Introduction; 1.1.1 -- Irregular or Random; 1.1.2 -- Rich in Scales of Eddying Motion; 1.1.3 -- Large Reynolds Number; 1.1.4 -- Dissipative; 1.1.5 -- Highly Vortical; 1.1.6 -- Three-Dimensional; 1.1.7 -- Highly Diffusive; 1.1.8 -- Turbulent Flows are Flows; 1.1.9 -- Continuum; 1.2 -- A brief historic account; 1.2.1 -- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
1.2.2 -- Lord Rayleigh (1878, 1880)1.2.3 -- Osborne Reynolds (1842-1912); 1.2.4 -- Henri Bénard (1900); 1.2.5 -- Taylor (1915, 1923, 1935, 1938); 1.2.6 -- Prandtl (1925); 1.3 -- Organization of the book; References; Chapter 2 -- Equations of Fluid in Motion; Chapter Objectives; Nomenclature; 2.1 -- Introduction; 2.2 -- Eulerian and Lagrangian frames; 2.2.1 -- Eulerian; 2.2.2 -- Lagrangian; 2.2.3 -- Eulerian-Lagrangian Transformation; 2.3 -- Common equations in fluid mechanics; 2.3.1 -- Conservation of Mass; 2.3.2 -- Momentum Equation; 2.4 -- Reynolds decomposition.
2.5 -- Conservation of mass from laminar to turbulent flow2.6 -- Momentum equation in turbulent flow; References; Chapter 3 -- Statistical Description of Flow Turbulence; Chapter Objectives; Nomenclature; 3.1 -- Introduction; 3.2 -- Probability; 3.3 -- Moments; 3.4 -- Joint statistics and correlation functions; 3.5 -- Additional considerations; 3.5.1 -- Fourier Series and Coefficients; 3.5.2 -- Fourier Transforms and Characteristic Functions; References; Chapter 4 -- Turbulence Scales; Chapter Objectives; Nomenclature; 4.1 -- Introduction.
4.2 -- Velocity and key length scales in laminar and turbulent boundary layers4.2.1 -- Laminar Boundary Layer; 4.2.2 -- Turbulent Boundary Layer; 4.3 -- Molecular versus turbulent diffusion; 4.4 -- Kolmogorov microscales of dissipation; 4.5 -- An inviscid estimate for dissipation rate; 4.6 -- The energy cascade -- scales from production-dissipation energy balance; 4.6.1 -- Production, Dissipation, and Local Equilibrium; 4.6.2 -- Approximate Scaling of Production and Dissipation; 4.6.3 -- Relating Production and Dissipation Scales; 4.7 -- Refined estimates for turbulence dissipation and integral scales.
Subject Turbulence.
Turbulence.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Hydraulics.
Turbulence
Other Form: Print version: Ting, David S.K. Basics of engineering turbulence. Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Academic Press, ©2016 xxi, 234 pages 9780128039700
ISBN 0128039833 (electronic bk.)
9780128039830 (electronic bk.)
0128039701
9780128039700
Standard No. AU@ 000057173390
AU@ 000059396673
AU@ 000062384174
CHBIS 010796206
CHNEW 001013424
CHVBK 403942497
DEBSZ 475046145
DEBSZ 482469390
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