A New Hypothesis on the Anisotropic Reynolds Stress Tensor for Turbulent Flows

A New Hypothesis on the Anisotropic Reynolds Stress Tensor for Turbulent Flows
Author: László Könözsy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030135438

This book gives a mathematical insight--including intermediate derivation steps--into engineering physics and turbulence modeling related to an anisotropic modification to the Boussinesq hypothesis (deformation theory) coupled with the similarity theory of velocity fluctuations. Through mathematical derivations and their explanations, the reader will be able to understand new theoretical concepts quickly, including how to put a new hypothesis on the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor into engineering practice. The anisotropic modification to the eddy viscosity hypothesis is in the center of research interest, however, the unification of the deformation theory and the anisotropic similarity theory of turbulent velocity fluctuations is still missing from the literature. This book brings a mathematically challenging subject closer to graduate students and researchers who are developing the next generation of anisotropic turbulence models. Indispensable for graduate students, researchers and scientists in fluid mechanics and mechanical engineering.

Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science

Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 4604
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080878857

The study of estuaries and coasts has seen enormous growth in recent years, since changes in these areas have a large effect on the food chain, as well as on the physics and chemistry of the ocean. As the coasts and river banks around the world become more densely populated, the pressure on these ecosystems intensifies, putting a new focus on environmental, socio-economic and policy issues. Written by a team of international expert scientists, under the guidance of Chief Editors Eric Wolanski and Donald McClusky, the Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, Ten Volume Set examines topics in depth, and aims to provide a comprehensive scientific resource for all professionals and students in the area of estuarine and coastal science Most up-to-date reference for system-based coastal and estuarine science and management, from the inland watershed to the ocean shelf Chief editors have assembled a world-class team of volume editors and contributing authors Approach focuses on the physical, biological, chemistry, ecosystem, human, ecological and economics processes, to show how to best use multidisciplinary science to ensure earth's sustainability Provides a comprehensive scientific resource for all professionals and students in the area of estuarine and coastal science Features up-to-date chapters covering a full range of topics

Turbulent Reactive Flows

Turbulent Reactive Flows
Author: R. Borghi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 950
Release: 2012-10-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781461396321

Turbulent reactive flows are of common occurrance in combustion engineering, chemical reactor technology and various types of engines producing power and thrust utilizing chemical and nuclear fuels. Pollutant formation and dispersion in the atmospheric environment and in rivers, lakes and ocean also involve interactions between turbulence, chemical reactivity and heat and mass transfer processes. Considerable advances have occurred over the past twenty years in the understanding, analysis, measurement, prediction and control of turbulent reactive flows. Two main contributors to such advances are improvements in instrumentation and spectacular growth in computation: hardware, sciences and skills and data processing software, each leading to developments in others. Turbulence presents several features that are situation-specific. Both for that reason and a number of others, it is yet difficult to visualize a so-called solution of the turbulence problem or even a generalized approach to the problem. It appears that recognition of patterns and structures in turbulent flow and their study based on considerations of stability, interactions, chaos and fractal character may be opening up an avenue of research that may be leading to a generalized approach to classification and analysis and, possibly, prediction of specific processes in the flowfield. Predictions for engineering use, on the other hand, can be foreseen for sometime to come to depend upon modeling of selected features of turbulence at various levels of sophistication dictated by perceived need and available capability.

Advances in Turbulence XII

Advances in Turbulence XII
Author: Bruno Eckhardt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783662519325

Lagrangian aspects.- Lagrangian modeling and properties of particles with inertia.- Effect of Faxén forces on acceleration statistics of material particles in turbulent flow.- Lagrangian analysis of turbulent convection.- Linear and angular dynamics of an inertial particle in turbulence.- Collision rate between heavy particles in a model turbulent flow.- From cloud condensation nuclei to cloud droplets: a turbulent model.- Lagrangian statistics of inertial particles in turbulent flow.- Lagrangian statistics of two–dimensional turbulence in a square container.- Measurement of Lagrangian Particle Trajectories by Digital in-line Holography.- 3-D Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) in gas flows using coloured tracer particles.- Two-particle dispersion in 2D inverse cascade turbulence and its telegraph equation model.- Numerical simulations of particle dispersion in stratified flows.- Instability and Transition.- Experimental study of the von Kármán flow from = 10 to 10: spontaneous symmetry breaking and turbulent bifurcations.- Flow reversals in a vertical channel.- Linear Instability of Streamwise Corner Flow.- DNS of turbulent plane Couette flow with emphasis on turbulent stripe.- Geometry of state space in plane Couette flow.- Linear and nonlinear instabilities of sliding Couette flow.- Localization in plane Couette edge dynamics.- Nonlinear optimal perturbations in plane Couette flow.- Order parameter in laminar-turbulent patterns.- Pattern formation in low Reynolds number plane Couette flow.- Quasi-stationary and chaotic convection in low rotating spherical shells.- Linear stability of 2D rough channels.- Transient turbulent bursting in enclosed flows.- On New Localized Vortex Solutions in the Couette-Ekman Layer.- Shear instabilities in Taylor-Couette flow.- Particle Tracking Velocimetry in Transitional Plane Couette Flow.- Experimental study of coherent structures in turbulent pipe flow.- Forced localized turbulence in pipe flows.- From localized to expanding turbulence.- Influence of test-rigs on the laminar-to-turbulent transition of pipe flows.- Interaction of turbulent spots in pipe flow.- Large-scale transitional dynamics in pipe flow.- Nonlinear coherent structures in a square duct.- Quantitative measurement of the life time of turbulence in pipe flow.- Experimental investigation of turbulent patch evolution in spatially steady boundary layers.- Interaction of noise disturbances and streamwise streaks.- Linear generation of multiple time scales by 3D unstable perturbations.- Convection at very high Rayleigh number: signature of transition from a micro-thermometer inside the flow.- Estimating local instabilities for irregular flows in the differentially heated rotating annulus.- Search for the “ultimate state” in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection.- Rayleigh–Taylor instability in two dimensions and phase-field method.- Split energy cascade in quasi-2D turbulence.- Stabililty and laminarisation of turbulent rotating channel flow.- The vortical flow pattern exhibited by the channel flow on a rotating system just past transition under the influence of the Coriolis force.- Transient evolution and high stratification scaling in horizontal mixing layers.- Control of turbulent flows.- Toward cost-effective Control of Wall Turbulence for Skin Friction Drag Reduction.- Active control of turbulent boundary layer using an array of piezo-ceramic actuators.- Flat plate turbulent boundary-layer control using vertical LEBUs.- Estimation of the spanwise wall shear stress based on upstream information for wall turbulence control.- Interactions between vortex generators and a flat plate boundary layer. Application to the control of separated flows..- Modulated global mode of a controlled wake.- Swirl effects in turbulent pipe flow.- Control of an axisymmetric turbulent wake by a pulsed jet.- Direct Numerical Simulations of turbulent mixed convection in enclosures with heated obstacles.-

Physical Processes in Clouds and Cloud Modeling

Physical Processes in Clouds and Cloud Modeling
Author: Alexander P. Khain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0521767431

Provides a comprehensive analysis of modern theories of cloud microphysical processes and their representation in numerical cloud models.