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Turbulence in Rotating, Stratified and Electrically Conducting Fluids
  • P. A. Davidson
  • Published online:
    05 September 2013
    Print publication:
    12 September 2013
  • There are two recurring themes in astrophysical and geophysical fluid mechanics: waves and turbulence. This book investigates how turbulence responds to rotation, stratification or magnetic fields, identifying common themes, where they exist, as well as the essential differences which inevitably arise between different classes of flow. The discussion is developed from first principles, making the book suitable for graduate students as well as professional researchers. The author focuses first on the fundamentals and then progresses to such topics as the atmospheric boundary layer, turbulence in the upper atmosphere, turbulence in the core of the earth, zonal winds in the giant planets, turbulence within the interior of the sun, the solar wind, and turbulent flows in accretion discs. The book will appeal to engineers, geophysicists, astrophysicists and applied mathematicians who are interested in naturally occurring turbulent flows.

Ten Chapters in Turbulence
  • Edited by Peter A. Davidson, Yukio Kaneda, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
  • Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    06 December 2012
  • Turbulence is ubiquitous in science, technology and daily life and yet, despite years of research, our understanding of its fundamental nature is still tentative and incomplete. More generally, the tools required for a deep understanding of strongly interacting many-body systems remain underdeveloped. Inspired by a research programme held at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, this book contains reviews by leading experts that summarize our current understanding of the nature of turbulence from theoretical, experimental, observational and computational points of view. The articles cover a wide range of topics, including the scaling and organized motion in wall turbulence, small scale structure, dynamics and statistics of homogeneous turbulence, turbulent transport and mixing, and effects of rotation, stratification and magnetohydrodynamics, as well as superfluidity. The book will be useful to researchers and graduate students interested in the fundamental nature of turbulence at high Reynolds numbers.

  • 9 - MHD Dynamos and Turbulence

  • Edited by Peter A. Davidson, University of Cambridge, Yukio Kaneda, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, New York University
  • Book:
    Ten Chapters in Turbulence
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    06 December 2012, pp 351-404

  • Summary

    Introduction

    Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the universe (Parker (1979); Zeldovich et al. (1983)). Their interaction with an electrically conducting fluid gives rise to a complex system–a magnetofluid-whose dynamics is quite distinct from that of either a non conducting fluid, or that of a magnetic field in a vacuum (Cowling (1976)). The scales of these interactions vary in nature from metres to megaparsecs and in most situations, the dissipative processes occur on small enough scales that the resulting flows are turbulent. The purpose of this review is to discuss a small fraction of what is currently known about the properties of these turbulent flows. We refer the reader to several recent reviews for a broader view of the field (Biskamp (2003); Galtier (2008, 2009); Lazarian (2006); Lazarian & Cho (2005); Müller & Busse (2007); Kulsrud & Zweibel (2008), Bigot et al. 2008, Sridhar 2010, Brandenburg & Nordlund 2010). The electrically conducting fluid most commonly found in nature is ionized gas, i.e. a plasma, and its description in terms of all its fundamental constituents is extremely complex (see e.g. Kulsrud (2005)). In many circumstances, however, these complexities can be neglected in favour of a simplified description in term of a single fluid interacting with a magnetic field. Formally, this approach is justifiable when the processes of interest occur on timescales long compared with the light-crossing time, and on spatial scales much larger that any characteristic plasma length.

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