| A Voyage Through Turbulence Contributor(s): Davidson, Peter A. (Editor), Kaneda, Yukio (Editor), Moffatt, Keith (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521198682 ISBN-13: 9780521198684 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $131.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Mechanics - Fluids - Technology & Engineering | Hydraulics |
| Dewey: 532.052 |
| LCCN: 2011022992 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.60 lbs) 450 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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): Davidson, Peter A.: - Peter A. Davidson is Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.Sreenivasan, Katepalli R.: - Katepalli R. Sreenivasan is University Professor in the Department of Physics and the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University.Kaneda, Yukio: - Yukio Kaneda is Professor in the Department of Computational Science and Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Nagoya, Japan.Moffatt, Keith: - Keith Moffatt is Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. |