Preface
Contributors
1 Small-Scale Statistics and Structure of Turbulence - in the Light of High Resolution Direct Numerical Simulation
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Background supporting the idea of universality
1.3 Examination of the ideas underlying the 4/5 law
1.4 Intermittency of dissipation rate and velocity gradients
1.5 Local structure
1.6 Inertial subrange
1.7 Concluding remarks
References
2 Structure and Dynamics of Vorticity in Turbulence
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Basic relations
. Temporal growth of vorticity
2,4 Spatial structure of the turbulent vorticity field
2.5 Vorticity statistics in turbulence
References
3 Passive Scalar Transport in Turbulence: A Computational Perspective
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Computational perspective
3.3 Background theory
3.4 Approach to low-order asymptotic state
3.5 High-order statistics: fine-scale structure and intermittency
3.6 Concluding remarks
References
4 A Lagrangian View of Turbulent Dispersion and Mixing
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Single particle motion and absolute dispersion
4.3 Two particle motion and relative dispersion
4.4 n-particle statistics
4.5 Conclusions
References
5 The Eddies and Scales of Wall Turbulence
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Background
5.3 Scales of coherent structures in wall turbulence
5.4 Relationship between statistical fine-scales and eddy scales
5.5 Summary and conclusions
References
6 Dynamics of Wall-Bounded Turbulence
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The classical theory of wall-bounded turbulence
6.3 The dynamics of the near-wall region
6.4 The logarithmic and outer layers
6.5 Coherent structures and dynamical systems
6.6 Conclusions
References
7 Recent Progress in Stratified Turbulence
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Scaling, cascade and spectra
7.3 Numerical simulations
7.4 Laboratory experiments
7.5 Field data
7.6 Conclusions
Appendix
References
8 Rapidly-Rotating Turbulence: An Experimental Perspective
8.1 The evidence of the eary xermets
8.2 Background: inertial waves and the formation of Taylor columns
8.3 The spontaneous growth of Taylor columns from compact eddies at low Ro
8.4 Anisotropic structuring via nonlinear wave interactions: resonant triads
8.5 Recent experimental evidence on inertial waves and columnar vortex formation
8.6 The cyclone-anticyclone asymmetry: speculative cartoons
8.7 The rate of energy decay
8.8 Concluding remarks
References
9 MHD Dynamos and Turbulence
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Dynamo
9.3 Mean field
9.4 Conclusions
References
10 How Similar is ntum Turbulence to Classical Turbulence?
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Preliminary remarks on decaying T
10.3 Comparisons between T and HIT: energy spectrum
10.4 Decaying vorticity
10.5 Decay of HIT when the shape of the energy spectra matters
10.6 Effective viscosity
10.7 Conclusions
References
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