Uriel Frisch (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

Turbulence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Elementary presentations of dynamical systems ideas, of probabilistic methods including the theory of large deviations, and of fractal geometry make this a self-contained textbook. The readership is first-year graduate students in mathematics, physics, astrophysics, geosciences and engineering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780521457132
• ISBN-10: 0521457130
• Artikelnr.: 22240472

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Symmetries and conservation laws
3. Why a probabilistic description of turbulence?
4. Probabilistic tools: a survey
5. Two experimental laws of fully developed turbulence
6. The Kolmogorov 1941 theory
7. Kolmogorov and Landau: the lack of universality
8. Phenomenology of turbulence in the sense of Kolmogorov 1941
9. Intermittency
10. Further reading: a guided tour
References
Author index
Subject index.