The theory of turbulence. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's 1954 lectures. Notes prepared by Edward A. Spiegel.

DOI10.1007/978-94-007-0117-5MaRDI QIDQ992767zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 10 September 2010

Published in Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0117-5

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turbulence

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Physics (00A79) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics (01A75) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Fundamentals of turbulence (76F02) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Physics, astronomy, technology, engineering (aspects of mathematics education) (97M50)

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The lecture notes on Turbulence by S. Chandrasekhar are transcribed and filled in with details by Edward Spiegel in the year 1954. Time goes on and therefore modern books on turbulence theory and observational details should be preferred by beginners. Nevertheless it is interesting to have a book on these lecture notes for three reasons: 1. The scientific historian will enjoy this compilation. 2. The didactically interested lecturer can learn much about presentations in theoretical physics. 3. Students will find many explicitly calculated details in the presentation of the mathematical formalism.

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• Theory of turbulence. Lectures given at a summer school of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Varenna (Como), Italy, September 1--9, 1957
• A thermodynamical theory of turbulence. I. Basic developments
• Theory of turbulence. Papers from a summer course, Udine, Italy, September 17--21, 2001
• The Kolmogorov-Obukhov theory of turbulence. A mathematical theory of turbulence
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 12175
• The turbulence paper of D. Ruelle and F. Takens.

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• On turbulence modelling and the transition from laminar to turbulent flow
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