IUTAM symposium on geometry and statistics of turbulence. Shonan International Village Center, Hayama (Kanagawa-ken), Japan, November 1--5, 1999 (Q5948376)

Publisher's description (no review copy received): This book is new because emphasis is placed on the aspects that the statistical laws in turbulence are not disconnected with the coherent structures distributing randomly in space and forming/decaying spontaneously in time, and that the anomalous scaling laws of a passive scalar in turbulence are captured from the first principle. Existence of such coherences in the stochastic processes of turbulence leads to the intermittency and also to non-Gaussian statistics. Details of the geometrical structures are investigated and described in terms of vortices of shear layers. The current state-of-the-art is presented in this book for graduate- and advanced-level students, by scientists working in the frontier of diverse areas of turbulence theoretically, computationally, and experimentally, centered at the subject structure and statistics.