A Voyage Through Turbulence
by Davidson, P. A., (Peter Alan)
Biographies of twelve of the leading personalities in turbulence research chart the development of the subject from Reynolds onward.
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- Full title :A Voyage Through Turbulence.
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Biographies of twelve of the leading personalities in turbulence research chart the development of the subject from Reynolds onward.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
Notes
7.1 Early years.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (452 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139137683, 1139137689, 1139141694, 9781139141697, 9781139145015, 1139145010, 9781139018241, 1139018248, 1107223792, 9781107223790, 1283316609, 9781283316606, 1139139231, 9781139139236, 9786613316608, 6613316601, 1139140817, 9781139140812
- oclc:ocn763157871
- LC Classification:QA913 .V69 2011
- Dewey Decimal:532
Table of Contents
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Osborne Reynolds: a turbulent life; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 Scope; 1.1.2 Family background; 1.1.3 Osborne Reynolds: education and first professional steps; 1.1.4 Chair application at Owens College; 1.2 Professorial career; 1.2.1 Reynolds' inaugural lecture at Owens College; 1.2.2 The first decade; 1.2.3 New beginnings; 1.2.4 The turbulent flow papers; 1.3 End piece; 1.3.1 The final years; 1.3.2 Recollections and reflections by contemporaries; 1.3.3 Closure; References; 2 Prandtl and the Göttingen school.
2.1 Introduction2.2 The boundary layer concept, 1904-1914; 2.3 A working program for a theory of turbulence; 2.4 Skin friction and turbulence I: the 1/7th law; 2.5 The mixing length approach; 2.6 Skin friction and turbulence II: the logarithmic law and beyond; 2.7 Fully developed turbulence I: 1932 to 1937; 2.8 Fully developed turbulence II: 1938; 2.9 Fully developed turbulence III: 1939 to 1945; 2.10 Prandtl's two manuscripts on turbulence, 1944-1945; 2.11 Conclusion; References; 3 Theodore von Kármán; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The logarithmic law of the wall; 3.3 Isotropic turbulence.
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