Turbulence: The Legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov

Written five centuries after the first studies of Leonardo da Vinci and half a century after A.N. Kolmogorov's first attempt to predict the properties of flow, this textbook presents a modern account of turbulence, one of the greatest challenges in physics. Fully developed turbulence is ubiquitous in both cosmic and natural environments, in engineering applications and in everyday life. Elementary presentations of dynamical systems ideas, probabilistic methods (including the theory of large deviations) and fractal geometry make this a self-contained textbook. This is the first book on turbulence to use modern ideas from chaos and symmetry breaking. The book will appeal to first-year graduate students in mathematics, physics, astrophysics, geosciences and engineering, as well as professional scientists and engineers.

Author: Uriel Frisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/26/1996
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.95w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780521457132

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