Turbulence in Rotating, Stratified and Electrically Conducting Fluids
Published on 12. September 2013
Book
Hardback
695 pages
978-1-107-02686-5 (ISBN)
Description
There are two recurring themes in astrophysical and geophysical fluid mechanics: waves and turbulence. This book investigates how turbulence responds to rotation, stratification or magnetic fields, identifying common themes, where they exist, as well as the essential differences which inevitably arise between different classes of flow. The discussion is developed from first principles, making the book suitable for graduate students as well as professional researchers. The author focuses first on the fundamentals and then progresses to such topics as the atmospheric boundary layer, turbulence in the upper atmosphere, turbulence in the core of the earth, zonal winds in the giant planets, turbulence within the interior of the sun, the solar wind, and turbulent flows in accretion discs. The book will appeal to engineers, geophysicists, astrophysicists and applied mathematicians who are interested in naturally occurring turbulent flows.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 15 Tables, black and white; 25 Halftones, unspecified; 65 Halftones, color; 195 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-02686-5 (9781107026865)
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Person
P. A. Davidson is Professor of Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.
Content
Preface; 1. The interplay of waves and turbulence: a preview; Part I. From Fluid Mechanics to Magnetohydrodynamics: 2. Elementary fluid dynamics; 3. Motion in a rotating fluid; 4. Motion in a stratified fluid; 5. The equations of electrodynamics; 6. Motion in a conducting fluid: magnetohydrodynamics; 7. Instabilities and transition to turbulence; Part II. Turbulence in the Absence of Body Forces: 8. Elementary properties of turbulence; 9. The language of turbulence: kinematics and statistics; 10. Hydrodynamic turbulence I. Classical theories; 11. Hydrodynamic turbulence II: steps towards rotating, stratified and MHD turbulence; Part III. Turbulence in the Presence of Body Forces: 12. Rapidly rotating turbulence; 13. Towards geophysics: shallow-water, rapidly-rotating turbulence; 14. Homogeneous stratified turbulence; 15. Stratified shear flows and the atmospheric boundary layer; 16. MHD turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number; 17. Turbulence in the core of the Earth: the geodynamo; 18. MHD turbulence at high magnetic Reynolds number; 19. Turbulent astrophysical flows; Epilogue; Index.