A First Course in Turbulence

by John L. Lumley and Henk Tennekes

Book Overview

This is the first book specifically designed to offer the student a smooth transitionary course between elementary fluid dynamics (which gives only last-minute attention to turbulence) and the professional literature on turbulent flow, where an advanced viewpoint is assumed. The subject of turbulence, the most forbidding in fluid dynamics, has usually proved treacherous to the beginner, caught in the whirls and eddies of its nonlinearities and statistical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262200198
• ISBN13: 9780262200196
• Release Date: March 1972
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher