《湍流》是一部研究生湍流教程，是以作者在Cornell大学数年的教学讲义为基础，用最新颖的观点，全面综合讲述湍流这一流体动力学的重要组成部分。全书的内容分为两个组成部分，并且附有大量的附录，第一部分集中介绍湍流的基本知识，其工作原理，以及如何量化，也包括基本物理过程；第二部分介绍了跟湍流模型和模拟有关的各种方法；附录部分增加了理解《湍流》所必需的数学技巧。

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Preface

Nomenclature

PART ONE: FUNDAMENTALS

 1 Introduction

1.1 The nature of turbulent flows

1.2 The study of turbulent flows

 2 The equations of fluid motion

 3 The statistical description of turbulent flows

 4 Mean-flow equations

 5 Free shear flows

 6 The scales of turbulent motion

 7 Wall flows

PART TWO: MODELLING AND SIMULATION

 8 An introduction to modelling and simulation

 9 Direct numerical simulation

 10 Turbulent-viscosity models

 11 Reynolds-stress and related models

 12 PDF methods

 13 Large-eddy simulation

PART THREE: APPENDICES

 Appendix .4 Cartesian tensors

 Appendix B Properties of second-order tensors

 Appendix C Dirac delta functions

 Appendix D Fourier transforms

 Appendix E Spectral representation of stationary random processes

 Appendix F The discrete Fourier transform

 Appendix G Power-law spectra

 Appendix H Derivation of Eulerian PDF equations

 Appendix I Characteristic functions

 Appendix J Diffusion processes

Bibliography

Author index

Subject index