List of tables
Preface
Nomenclature
PART ONE: FUNDAMENTALS
1 Introduction
1.1 The nature of turbulent flows
1.2 The study of turbulent flows
2 The equations of fluid motion
2.1 Continuum fluid properties
2.2 Eulerian and Lagrangian fields
2.3 The continuity equation
2.4 The momentum equation
2.5 The role of pressure
2.6 Conserved passive scalars
2.7 The vorticity equation
2.8 Rates of strain and rotation
2.9 Transformation properties
3 The statistical description of turbulent flows
3.1 The random nature of turbulence
3.2 Characterization of random variables
3.3 Examples of probability distributions
3.4 Joint random variables
3.5 Normal and joint-normal distributions
3.6 Random processes
3.7 Random fields
3.8 Probability and averaging
4 Mean-flow equations
4.1 Reynolds equations
4.2 Reynolds stresses
4.3 The mean scalar equation
4.4 Gradient-diffusion and turbulent-viscosity hypotheses
5 Free shear flows
5.1 The round jet: experimental observations
5.2 The round jet: mean momentum
5.3 The round jet: kinetic energy
5.4 Other self-similar flows
5.5 Further observations
6 The scales of turbulent motion
6.1 The energy cascade and Kolmogorov hypotheses
6.2 Structure functions
6.3 Two-point correlation
6.4 Fourier modes
6.5 Velocity spectra
6.6 The spectral view of the energy cascade
6.7 Limitations, shortcomings, and refinements
7 Wall flows
7.1 Channel flow
7.2 Pipe flow
7.3 Boundary layers
7.4 Turbulent structures
PART TWO: MODELLING AND SIMULATION
8 An introduction to modelling and simulation
8.1 The challenge
8.2 An overview of approaches
8.3 Criteria for appraising models
9 Direct numerical simulation
9.1 Homogeneous turbulence
9.2 Inhomogeneous flows
9.3 Discussion
10 Turbulent-viscosity models
10.1 The turbulent-viscosity hypothesis
10.2 Algebraic models
10.3 Turbulent-kinetic-energy models
10.4 The k-εmodel
10:5 Further turbulent-viscosity models
11 Reynolds-stress and related models
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The pressure-rate-of-strain tensor
11.3 Return-to-isotropy models
11.4 Rapid-distortion theory
11.5 Pressure-rate-of-strain models
11.6 Extension to inhomogeneous flows
11.7 Near-wall treatments
11.8 Elliptic relaxation models
11.9 Algebraic stress and nonlinear viscosity models
11.10 Discussion
12 PDF methods
12.1 The Eulerian PDF of velocity
12.2 The model velocity PDF equation
12.3 Langevin equations
12.4 Turbulent dispersion
12.5 The velocity-frequency joint PDF
12.6 The Lagrangian particle method
12.7 Extensions
12.8 Discussion
13 Large-eddy simulation
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Filtering
13.3 Filtered conservation equations
13.4 The Smagorinsky model
13.5 LES in wavenumber space
13.6 Further residual-stress models
13.7 Discussion
PART THREE: APPENDICES
Appendix .4 Cartesian tensors
A.1 Cartesian coordinates and vectors
A.2 The definition of Cartesian tensors
A.3 Tensor operations
A.4 The vector cross product
A.5 A summary of Cartesian-tensor suffix notation
Appendix B Properties of second-order tensors
Appendix C Dirac delta functions
C.1 The definition of δ(x)
C.2 Properties of rS(x)
C.3 Derivatives of rS(x)
C.4 Taylor series
C.5 The Heaviside function
C.6 Multiple dimensions
Appendix D Fourier transforms
Appendix E Spectral representation of stationary random processes
E.1 Fourier series
E.2 Periodic random processes
E.3 Non-periodic random processes
E.4 Derivatives of the-process
Appenthix F The discrete Fourier transform
Appendix G Power-law spectra
Appendix H Derivation of Eulerian PDF equations
Appendix I Characteristic functions
Appendix J Diffusion processes
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index