Interdisciplinary Aspects of Turbulence

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Lecture Notes in Physics 756

ISBN: 3642097731
ISBN 13: 9783642097737
Herausgeber: Wolfgang Hillebrandt/Friedrich Kupka
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: x, 340 S., 102 s/w Illustr., 8 farbige Illustr., 340 p. 110 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2010
Auflage: 1/2009
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT

Written by experts from geophysics, astrophysics and engineering, this unique book on the interdisciplinary aspects of turbulence offers recent advances in the field and covers everything from the very nature of turbulence to some practical applications.

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Beschreibung

What do combustion engines, fusion reactors, weather forecast, ocean flows, our sun, and stellar explosions in outer space have in common? Of course, the physics and the length and time scales are vastly different in all cases, but it is also well known that in all of them, on some relevant length scales, the material flows that govern the dynamical and/or secular evolution of the systems are chaotic and often unpredictable: they are said to be turbulent. The interdisciplinary aspects of turbulence are brought together in this volume containing chapters written by experts from very different fields, including geophysics, astrophysics, and engineering. It covers several subjects on which considerable progress was made during the last decades, from questions concerning the very nature of turbulence to some practical applications. These subjects include: a basic introduction into turbulence, statistical mechanics and nonlinear dynamics, turbulent convection in stars, atmospheric turbulence in the context of numerical weather predictions, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, turbulent combustion with application to supernova explosions, and finally the numerical treatment of the multi-scale character of turbulence.

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Hillebrandt is member of the Editorial Board of LNP and Director Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics. He is one of the leading figures in simulations of supernova explosions.

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