Pope, S. B.

Turbulent flows / Stephen B. Pope. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000. - xxxiv, 771 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

List of tables. - Preface. - Nomenclature. - Part One : Fundamentals. 1. Introduction. 2. The equations of fluid motion. 3. The statistical description of turbulent flows. 4. Mean-flow equations. 5. Free shear flows. 6. The scales of turbulent motion. 7. Wall flows. - Part Two : Modelling and Simulation. 8. An introduction to modelling and simulation. 9. Direct numerical simulation. 10. Turbulent-viscosity models. 11. Reynolds-stress and related models. 12. PDF methods. 13. Large-eddy simulation. - Part Three : Appendices. - App. A Cartesian tensors. - App. B Properties of second-order tensors. - App. C Dirac delta functions. - App. D Fourier transforms. - App. E Spectral representation of stationary random processes. - App. F The discrete Fourier transform. - App. G Power-law spectra. - App. H Derivation of Eulerian PDF equations. - App. I Characteristic function. - App. J Diffusion processes. - Bibliography. - Author index. - Subject index.

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