… introduces flow turbulence to engineers and engineering … It covers the basic characteristics
of flow turbulence in terms of … understand the fundamentals of turbulence scales, especially …

… For high viscosities the basic configuration is stable. As the viscosity is reduced we soon
reach a point where the basic equilibrium is unstable to infinitesimal perturbations and the …

… of basic ideas in turbulence theory and modeling. The concept of eddy diffusion provides a
motive to represent turbulence by … Shear increases turbulent energy at low, streamwise wave-…

… basic features of turbulence in natural flows, by describing general characteristics of
turbulence… ; along with a discussion of how turbulent fluxes are estimated, including statistical …

… We introduce the basic concepts and governing equations for studying such flows. These
flows may be used as a building block for investigating more complex flows of …

It was a pleasure to read this important book. To understand and predict the development of
turbulent flows represents both a continuing scientific challenge and also a serious practical …

… Then, in a final subsection we introduce some further basic concepts that often arise in the
turbulence literature; to some extent this will provide further discussions and applications of …

… book is mostly limited by purely basic aspects on turbulent flows of incompressible fluids.
The prerequisites include a basic course in fluid dynamics (including turbulence) and standard …

… A basic tool of turbulence theory is dimensional analysis; it is always used in conjunction
with an appeal to the idea that turbulent flows should be independent of the Reynolds number if …

… Since these works belong to engineering problems, these works are not included in this …
the basic theoretical problems and physical mechanisms of flow instability and turbulent …