A Voyage Through Turbulence
by Edited by Peter A. Davidson , Yukio Kaneda , Keith Moffatt , Katepalli R. SreenivasanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-10-31
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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 through a crucial period of the history of the subject via biographies of twelve of its great personalities, starting with Osborne Reynolds and his pioneering work of the 1880s. This book will provide absorbing reading for every scientist, mathematician and engineer interested in the history and culture of turbulence, as background to the intense challenges that this universal phenomenon still presents.
Table of Contents
| List of contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Osborne Reynolds: a turbulent life | |
| Prandtl and the Göttingen school | |
| Theodore von Kármán | |
| G. I. Taylor: the inspiration behind the Cambridge school | |
| Lewis Fry Richardson | |
| The Russian school | |
| Stanley Corrsin Charles Meneveau | |
| George Batchelor: the post-war renaissance of research in turbulence | |
| A. A. Townsend Ivan Marusic | |
| Robert H. Kraichnan | |
| Satish Dhawan | |
| Philip G. Saffman | |
| Epilogue: a turbulence timeline | |
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