Robert H. Kraichnan

DOI10.1017/CBO9781139018241.011MaRDI QIDQ2906558zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gregory Eyink, Uriel Frisch

Publication date 5 September 2012

Published in A Voyage Through Turbulence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2383

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Turbulence (76F99) History of fluid mechanics (76-03)

Abstract: Robert Harry Kraichnan {(1928-2008)} was one of the leaders in the theory of turbulence for a span of about forty years (mid-fifties to mid-nineties). Among his many contributions, he is perhaps best known for his work on the inverse energy cascade (i.e. from small to large scales) for forced two-dimensional turbulence. This is a review of Kraichnan's main scientific contributions.

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