Syllabus
Introduction to turbulence – Equations of fluid motion – Statistical description of turbulent flows – Mean-flow equations – Space and time scales of turbulent motion – Jets, wakes and boundary layers – Coherent structures – Spectral dynamics – Homogeneous and isotropic turbulence – Two-dimensional turbulence – Coherent structures – Vorticity dynamics – Intermittency – Modeling of turbulent flows.
Text Books
Same as Reference
References
1. Tennekes, H. and Lumley, J. L., A First Course in Turbulence, The MIT Press (1972).
2. Frisch, U., Turbulence, Cambridge Univ. Press (1996).
3. Davidson, P. A., Turbulence: An Introduction to Scientist and Engineers, Oxford Univ. Press (2004).
4. Pope, S. B., Turbulent Flows, Cambridge Univ. Press (2000).
5. Mathieu, J. and Scott, J., An Introduction to Turbulent Flow, Cambridge Univ. Press (2000).
6. Lesieur, M., Turbulence in Fluids, 2nd ed., Springer (2008).
7. Monin, A. S. and Yaglom, A. M., Statistical Fluid Mechanics, Dover (2007).
8. McComb, W. D., The Physics of Fluid Turbulence, Oxford Univ. Press (1992).