
Basics of Engineering Turbulence
Description
Key Features
- Focuses on the basics of turbulence for applications in engineering and industrial settings
- Provides an understanding of concepts that are often challenging, such as energy distribution among the turbulent structures, the effective diffusivity, and the theory behind turbulence scales
- Offers a user-friendly approach with clear-and-concise explanations and illustrations, as well as end-of-chapter problems
Readership
Mechanical, civil, chemical and environmental engineers who encounter flow turbulence in their everyday practice. Graduate students entering into flow turbulence research
Table of Contents
Part I: Some Basics of Flow Turbulence
1. Introducing Flow Turbulence
2. Equations of Flow Motion
3. Statistical Description of Flow Turbulence
4. Turbulence Scales
5. Turbulence Simulations and Modeling
6. Wall Turbulence
7. Grid Turbulence
8. Vortex Dynamics
Part II: Examples of Engineering Problems Involving Flow Turbulence
9. Sphere and Circular Cylinder in Cross Flow
10. Premixed Turbulent Flame Propagation
Product details
- No. of pages: 256
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2016
- Published: February 17, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128039830
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128039700
About the Author
David Ting
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Robert D. Fri Feb 18 2022
Excellent introduction to turbulence for
Excellent introduction to turbulence for engineers