L'étude de la turbulence constitue sans aucun doute la branche la plus complexe de la mécanique des fluides. L'ouvrage Eléments de turbulence propose un exposé complet du sujet tout en étant concis. Il vise à combler une lacune en présentant dans un texte unifié un ensemble de concepts et d'équations que l'on trouve épars dans des traités ou des articles de périodique souvent inaccessibles pour les non-spécialistes. Le livre s'adresse en premier lieu aux étudiants des cycles supérieurs qui abordent cette discipline après avoir suivi un premier cours de mécanique des fluides. Les ingénieurs praticiens désirant parfaire leurs connaissances y trouveront également une source de renseignements très utile. Dans les deux premiers chapitres, l'auteur se penche sur la transition vers la turbulence, les échelles, l'approche statistique et les hypothèses de fermeture courantes. Les chapitres suivants traitent des solutions de similitude classiques des équations de transport en conduite et en écoulement libre, du raccordement des profils entre les régions de la paroi et du défaut de vitesse, de la turbulence homogène, de l'approche spectrale et des méthodes expérimentales. Outre la présentation théorique, l'ouvrage comporte de nombreux graphiques et illustrations, douze exercices et soixante-quatorze problèmes. [Source : 4e de couv.]

This book presents a snapshot of the state-of-art in the field of turbulence modeling, with an emphasis on numerical methods. Topics include direct numerical simulations, large eddy simulations, compressible turbulence, coherent structures, two-phase flow simulation and many more. It includes both theoretical contributions and experimental works, as well as chapters derived from keynote lectures, presented at the fifth Turbulence and Interactions Conference (TI 2018), which was held on June 25-29 in Martinique, France. This multifaceted collection, which reflects the conference ́s emphasis on the interplay of theory, experiments and computing in the process of understanding and predicting the physics of complex flows and solving related engineering problems, offers a timely guide for students, researchers and professionals in the field of applied computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modeling and related areas.

This book is an informal introduction to the turbulence of fluids. The emphasis is placed on turbulence as a physical phenomenon. It addresses the unresolved issues, misconceptions, controversies, and major problems of the turbulence of fluids rather than the conventional formalistic elements and models. Little use is made of complicated formalisms; instead the emphasis is placed on an essentially informal qualitative form. The scope of the book is focused on the purely basic aspects of the turbulent flows of incompressible fluids. This book will certainly be of interest and use to graduate students as well as scientists active in fields where the turbulence of fluids is of importance. The book is intentionally written to appeal to a broad readership with the aim of making the turbulence of fluids interesting and comprehensible to the interested engineer.

This book presents the mathematical theory of turbulence to engineers and physicists, and the physical theory of turbulence to mathematicians. The mathematical technicalities are kept to a minimum within the book, enabling the language to be at a level understood by a broad audience.

An Introduction to Turbulence and Its Measurement is an introductory text on turbulence and its measurement. It combines the physics of turbulence with measurement techniques and covers topics ranging from measurable quantities and their physical significance to the analysis of fluctuating signals, temperature and concentration measurements, and the hot-wire anemometer. Examples of turbulent flows are presented. This book is comprised of eight chapters and begins with an overview of the physics of turbulence, paying particular attention to Newton's second law of motion, the Newtonian viscous fluid, and equations of motion. After a chapter devoted to measurable quantities, the discussion turns to some examples of turbulent flows, including turbulence behind a grid of bars, Couette flow, atmospheric and oceanic turbulence, and heat and mass transfer. The next chapter describes measurement techniques using hot wires, films, and thermistors, as well as Doppler-shift anemometers; glow-discharge or corona-discharge anemometers; pulsed-wire anemometer; and steady-flow techniques for fluctuation measurement. This monograph is intended for post-graduate students of aeronautics and fluid mechanics, but should also be readily understandable to those with a good general background in engineering fluid dynamics.

Following a longstanding tradition of the Les Houches Summer Schools, this book uses a pedagogically presented and accessible style to treat 2D and 3D turbulence from the experimental, theoretical and computational points of view.