IUTAM Symposium on Asymptotic Methods for Turbulent Shear Flows at High Reynolds Numbers: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Bochum, Germany, ... 37 (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, 37) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792341384 ISBN 13: 9780792341383

Publisher: Springer, 1996

Synopsis

This IUTAM Symposium was the first international conference on asymptotic methods for turbulent shear flows. It was the aim of this Symposium to bring together the experts and research workers to discuss recent work in this field. There was general consensus among the participants of the Symposium, that the asymptotic methods provide powerful tool for turbulence modelling, which ought to be used more intensively in practice in addition to the numerical meth­ ods. This was the Scientific Committee: K. Gersten (Germany, Chairman) A. Kluwick (Austria) J. - P. Guiraud (France) F. T. Smith (United Kingdom) V. V. Sychev (Russia) S. Kida (Japan) H. K. Moffat (United Kingdom) J. D. A. Walker (USA) We are very thankful that the Symposium was sponsored by the following organizations: • International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn • Gesellschaft der Freunde der Ruhr-Universitiit, Bochum • Institut fur Energie-, System-, Material- und Umwelttechnik e. V. , Bochum • Ruhrgas AG, Essen • Dresdner Bank, Bochum • Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht • Vieweg-Verlag, Wiesbaden We thank in particular the Rektor of the Ruhr University, Professor M. Bormann, who was host of the Symposium and made possible that the Symposium could take place on the campus. The following persons, who helped in organizing the Symposium and made sure that everything was working smoothly and efficiently during the Symposium, de­ serve our special thanks: Bernard Rocklage, Gerta Marliani, Petra Berkner and Th.

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This volume contains the contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Asymptotic Methods for Turbulent Shear Flows, which was the first international conference on the subject. The book provides an overview of the state of the art in this field and presents results found worldwide. Asymptotic theory is here considered as the application of perturbation methods (singular perturbation methods, multiscale methods, rapid distortion theory etc.) to solving the Reynolds - averaged flow equations for turbulent shear flows at high Reynolds numbers.These methods play an important role in turbulence modelling, as is demonstrated by many examples, including turbulence models describing flow separation. It becomes evident that asymptotic methods enable the extraction of a fairly comprehensive set of results from the governing equations without incorporating a specific turbulence model a priori. Furthermore, these methods can be used to quickly eliminate unsatisfactory models. The book contains valuable results for turbulence researchers, in particular for those working in turbulence modelling.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792341384
• ISBN 13: 9780792341383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Gersten K.