The interdisciplinary aspects of turbulence are brought together in this volume containing chapters written by experts from very diverse fields, including geophysics, astrophysics, and engineering. It covers several subjects on whichconsiderable progress was made during the last decades, from questions concerning the very nature of turbulence to some practical applications. These subjects include: a basic introduction to turbulence, statistical mechanics and nonlinear dynamics; turbulent convection in stars, atmospheric turbulence in the context of numerical weather predictions, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and turbulent combustion with application to supernova explosions; and finally thenumerical treatment of the multi-scale character of turbulence. For the firsttime the interdisciplinary aspects of turbulence in geophysics, astrophysics,and engineering are brought together in a coherent way INDICE: An Introduction to Turbulence.- Nonextensive Statistical Mechanicsand Nonlinear Dynamics.- Turbulent Convection and Numerical Simulation in Solar and Stellar Astrophysics.- Turbulence in Astrophysical and Geophysical Flows.- Turbulence in the Lower Troposphere: Second-Order Closure and Mass-Flux Modelling Frameworks.- Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence.- Turbulent Combustion in Thermonuclear Supernovae.- ODT: Stochastic Simulation of Multi-Scale Dyanmics.- Index.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-78960-4
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 370
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés