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"Based on his 40+ years of research and teaching, John Wyngaard's textbook is an excellent up-to-date introduction to turbulence in the atmosphere and in engineering flows for advanced students, and a reference work for researchers in the atmospheric sciences. Part I introduces the concept...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wyngaard, John C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Atmospheric turbulence.
Turbulence atmosphérique.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
Atmospheric turbulence
Atmosphärische Turbulenz
Atmosphäre > Turbulenz.
Turbulenz > Atmosphäre.
Handbooks
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • PART I.A GRAMMAR OF TURBULENCE: Introduction
  • Getting to know turbulence
  • Equations for averaged variables
  • Turbulent fluxes
  • Conservation equations for covariances
  • Large-eddy dynamics, the energy cascade, and large-eddy simulation
  • Kolmogrov scaling, its extensions, and two-dimensional turbulence
  • PART II. TURBULENCE IN THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER: The equations of atmospheric turbulence
  • The atmospheric boundary layer
  • The atmospheric surface layer
  • The convective boundary layer
  • The stable boundary layer
  • PART III. STATISTICAL REPRESENTATION OF TURBULENCE: Probability densities and distributions
  • Isotropic tensors
  • Covariances, autocorrelations, and spectra
  • Statistics in turbulence analysis.

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