Frontiers in Fluid Mechanics

On the Approach to Isotropy of Homogeneous Turbulence: Effect of the Partition of Kinetic Energy Among the Velocity Components.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Experimental Arrangements.- 3. Measuring Equipment and Procedure.- 4. Experimental Results.- 5. Consequences for Turbulence Modeling in the Physical Space..- 6. Anisotropy of the Spectral Tensor.- 7. Conclusions.- References.- Random Incompressible Motion on Two and Three-Dimensional Lattices and Its Application to the Walk on a Random Field.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Description and Generation of Discrete Fields.- 3. Production of Markovian and Correlated Discrete Fields.- 4. Statistics of the Fields.- 5. Statistics of Particle Dispersion.- 6. Extending the Work to Three-Dimensional Discrete Fields...- 7. Conclusions.- References.- Transition and Turbulence in Fluid Flows and Low-Dimensional Chaos.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Experiments.- 3. Results from Spectral Measurements.- 4. Results from the Dimension of the Attractor.- 5. Discussion of Results.- References.- Some Contributions of Two-Point Closure to Turbulence.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Decay of Total Energy and Scalar Variance.- 3. Return to Isotropy.- 4. Two-Dimensional Turbulence.- 5. Convection.- 6. Concluding Comments.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- References.- Intermittent Turbulent Flow.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Conditional Events and Their Description.- 3. Conditional Moments.- 4. Turbulent Flows with Chemical Reactions.- 5. Applications.- 6. Conclusions.- References.- The Spectra of Single Reactants in Homogeneous Turbulence.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Turbulent Mixing Approximation.- 3. Transport in Composition Space Due to Molecular Diffusion and Reaction.- 4. Combined Closures for Turbulent Mixing of a Reactive Scalar 120 References.- The Dynamics of Turbulent Spots.- 1.Introduction.- 2. The Incipient Spot.- 3. Average Properties of Spots.- 4. Underlying Structure of Turbulent Spots.- 5. Relationship to Other Flows.- 6. Conclusions.- References.- Spectral and Statistical Characteristics of Breaking Waves.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Statistical Equilibrium of Short Waves.- 3. Constraints on the Constants of Proportionality.- 4. Some Statistical Characteristics of Breaking Events.- References.- How Do Liquid Drops Spread on Solids?.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Formulation.- 3. Lubrication Approximation.- 4. Evolution Equation.- 5. Newtonian Liquids.- 6. Non-Newtonian Liquids.- 7. Conclusions.- References.- Effects of Streamline Curvature on Turbulence.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Analogy Between Streamline Curvature and Buoyancy...- 3. Measurements in Curved Wall Layers.- 4. Modeling the Second Moment Equations.- References.- Limitations of Second Order Modeling of Passive Scalar Diffusion.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Pope's Problem.- 3. Equations, Model and Initial Conditions.- 4. Results and Discussion.- 5. Conclusions.- References.- Acoustic Wave Propagation in Fluids.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Single-Component Newtonian Fluid.- 3. Newtonian Fluid Mixture with Coupled Reactions (Nondiffusive System).- 4. Binary Mixture of Newtonian Fluids with a Generalized Fick's Law of Diffusion.- 5. Viscoelastic Fluids.- 6. Viscoelastic Fluids with Coupled Reactions.- 7. Conclusions.- 8. List of Symbols.- References.- Publications of Stanley Corrsin.- Index of Contributors.