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A Voyage Through Turbulence
Contributor(s): Davidson, Peter A. (Editor), Kaneda, Yukio (Editor), Moffatt, Keith (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1139018248     ISBN-13: 9781139018241
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $213.75  

Binding Type: Open Ebook - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Mechanics - Fluids
- Technology & Engineering | Hydraulics
Dewey: 532.052
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Turbulence is widely recognized as one of the outstanding problems of the physical sciences, but it still remains only partially understood despite having attracted the sustained efforts of many leading scientists for well over a century. In A Voyage Through Turbulence we are transported through a crucial period of the history of the subject via biographies of twelve of its great personalities, starting with Osborne Reynolds and his pioneering work of the 1880s. This book will provide absorbing reading for every scientist, mathematician and engineer interested in the history and culture of turbulence, as background to the intense challenges that this universal phenomenon still presents.

Contributor Bio(s): Moffatt, Keith: - Keith Moffatt is Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.Davidson, Peter A.: - Peter A. Davidson is Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.Kaneda, Yukio: - Yukio Kaneda is Professor in the Department of Computational Science and Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Nagoya, Japan.Sreenivasan, Katepalli R.: - Katepalli R. Sreenivasan is University Professor in the Department of Physics and the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
 
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