Advances in turbulence 3 proceedings of the Third European Turbulence Conference, Stockholm, July 3 - 6, 1990

The Book Covers The Following Main Topics: Turbulence Structure, Transition, Dynamical Systems In Relation To Transition, Turbulent Combustion And Mixing, Turbulence Affected By Body Forces, Turbulence Modeling, Drag Reduction, And Novel Experimental Techniques. In Addition To 6 Invited Survey Lectures The Reader Will Find Well Over 50 Contributions By Specialists In The Field. The Book Addresses Researchers In Physics, Engineering, And Numerical Simulation. Edited By Arne V. Johansson, P. Henrik Alfredsson. Front Matter....Pages I-XI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Structure and Statistics of Intermittency in Homogeneous Turbulent Shear Flow....Pages 3-12 Vortex-Shedding and the Maintenance of Thick Turbulent Boundary Layers on Long Cylinders in Axial Flow....Pages 13-21 Properties of Fine Scales in High Reynolds Number Turbulence....Pages 22-33 Dynamics and Topology of Coherent Structures in a Plane Wake....Pages 34-41 The Mechanisms of Formation and Breakdown of Soliton-like Coherent Structures in Boundary Layers....Pages 42-51 Deformation and Splitting of Pseudo-elliptical Vortex Rings....Pages 52-60 The Structure of Round Turbulent Jets in Counterflow: A Flow Visualization Study....Pages 61-66 Waves in Turbulence....Pages 67-84 The Evolution of Helical Waves on Axisymmetric Jets....Pages 85-92 The Interaction Between Particles and Coherent Structures in a Plane Turbulent Jet....Pages 93-100 Large Eddy Simulation of the Interaction Between Two Distinct Turbulent Velocity Scales....Pages 101-112 Coherent Structures in Favourable and Adverse Pressure Gradient Boundary Layers....Pages 113-121 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 The Multifractal Nature of Turbulent Dispersion....Pages 125-132 The Structure and Splitting of Puffs in Transitional Pipe Flow....Pages 133-141 The Subharmonic Growth of a Wave-Packet in a Laminar Boundary Layer....Pages 142-150 Large-Scale Structures in Helical Turbulence....Pages 151-154 Experiments on the Effect of Mean Flow Unsteadiness on the Subharmonic Growth in a Plane Mixing Layer....Pages 155-161 An Eigenfunction Expansion of Localized Disturbances....Pages 162-169 The Role of Computation in Transition Research....Pages 170-181 Experiments on the Evolution of a Point-like Disturbance in Plane Poiseuille Flow into a Turbulent Spot....Pages 182-188 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 Direct Simulation of the Development of Turbulent Spots in Plane Couette Flow....Pages 189-196 Transition from Order to Disorder in Elliptical Flow: A Direct Path to Shear Flow Turbulence....Pages 197-203 Turbulent Spots in a Rotating Blasius Boundary Layer....Pages 204-210 Structure and Statistics of Homogeneous Turbulence Obtained from a Direct Simulation....Pages 211-220 On the Mechanism of ‘Side-jet’ Generation in Periodically Excited Axisymmetric Jets....Pages 221-226 Jets of Air-Helium Mixtures in Air....Pages 227-234 An Experimental Study of Transition in Plane Couette Flow....Pages 235-242 Dynamical Theory and Mixing....Pages 243-256 Algebraization of 2-D Ideal Fluid Hydrodynamical Systems and Their Finite-Mode Approximations....Pages 257-260 Front Matter....Pages 261-261 Reactive Mixing Layers and Turbulent Combustion....Pages 263-270 Concentration Statistics in Shear-free Grid-Generated Turbulence with a Second-Order Rapid Reaction....Pages 271-278 Turbulent Combustion Modelling — A Review....Pages 279-299 Effects of Turbulence on the Mixing and Chemical Reaction for Cross Flow and Coflowing jets....Pages 300-311 Joint Statistics of Scalars and Their Gradients in Nearly Homogeneous Turbulence....Pages 312-323 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 Transport of Passive Scalars in Neutrally and Stably Stratified Homogeneous Turbulent Shear Flows....Pages 327-334 A Model for the Turbulent Breakdown of Internal Gravity Waves....Pages 335-342 Turbulence and Gravitation....Pages 343-350 Spectral Properties of Turbulence and the Structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer....Pages 351-358 Self-similar Structures in 2-D Turbulence: Experimental and Theoretical Study of Vortex Multipoles....Pages 359-367 Large Eddy Simulation of MHD Flows in Metallurgy....Pages 368-374 Front Matter....Pages 375-375 The Modelling of Perturbed Turbulent Boundary Layers....Pages 377-386 Towards an EDQNM-Closure for Inhomogeneous Turbulence....Pages 387-394 Defining the Zonal Structure of Turbulence Using the Pressure and Invariants of the Deformation Tensor....Pages 395-404 Modelling the Flow in Droplet-Driven Sprays....Pages 405-413 Anisotropic Dissipation Rate — Implications for Reynolds Stress Models....Pages 414-421 Kinematics of Small Scale Motions in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence....Pages 422-434 Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of a Homogeneous Turbulent Shear Flow....Pages 435-444 New Physics and Models for Compressible Turbulent Flows....Pages 445-454 Front Matter....Pages 455-455 Turbulence Control....Pages 457-463 Near-Wall Turbulence Structure over Misaligned Riblets....Pages 464-471 Direct Drag Measurements in a LEBU Manipulated Flat-Plate Boundary Layer....Pages 472-480 Front Matter....Pages 481-481 An Analysis of a Natural Turbulent Boundary Layer Through the Processing of Horizontal Hydrogen Bubble Lines....Pages 483-490 Turbulence Measurements Using Double-Chip Silicon Sensors....Pages 491-496 Active Turbulence Generation in a Laboratory Wind Tunnel....Pages 497-505 Effects of Longitudinal Diffusion in the Fluid and of Heat Conduction to the Substrate on the Response of Wall Hot-Film Gages....Pages 506-513 Measuring Invariant (Frame Independent) Quantities Composed of Velocity Derivatives in Turbulent Flows....Pages 514-523 The Use of Near-Wall Hot-Wire Probes for Time Resolved Skin-Friction Measurements....Pages 524-529 Back Matter....Pages 531-540 Main topics covered are: turbulence structure, transition, dynamic systems in relation to transition, turbulent combustion and mixing, turbulence affected by body forces, turbulence modelling, drag reduction, and novel experimental techniques.