John C. Wyngaard

Turbulence in the Atmosphere (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on his over forty years of research and teaching, John C. Wyngaard's textbook is an excellent up-to-date introduction to turbulence in the atmosphere and in engineering flows for advanced students, and a reference work for researchers in the atmospheric sciences. Part I introduces the concepts and equations of turbulence. It includes a rigorous introduction to the principal types of numerical modeling of turbulent flows. Part II describes turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. Part III covers the foundations of the statistical representation of turbulence and includes illustrative examples of stochastic problems that can be solved analytically. The book treats atmospheric and engineering turbulence in a unified way, gives clear explanation of the fundamental concepts of modeling turbulence, and has an up-to-date treatment of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. Student exercises are included at the ends of chapters, and worked solutions are available online for use by course instructors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511763991
• Artikelnr.: 38209938

Autorenporträt

John C. Wyngaard's experience in turbulence research and teaching spans the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, the Wave Propagation Laboratory of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, the Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the Department of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, where he developed a sequence of courses on turbulence. This book is based on those courses. He has published over 100 refereed journal papers covering theoretical, observational, and numerical modeling aspects of engineering and geophysical turbulence.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. A Grammar of Turbulence: 1. Introduction
2. Getting to know turbulence
3. Equations for averaged variables
4. Turbulent fluxes
5. Conservation equations for covariances
6. Large-eddy dynamics, the energy cascade, and large-eddy simulation
7. Kolmogrov scaling, its extensions, and two-dimensional turbulence
Part II. Turbulence in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: 8. The equations of atmospheric turbulence
9. The atmospheric boundary layer
10. The atmospheric surface layer
11. The convective boundary layer
12. The stable boundary layer
Part III. Statistical Representation of Turbulence: 13. Probability densities and distributions
14. Isotropic tensors
15. Covariances, autocorrelations, and spectra
16. Statistics in turbulence analysis
Index.