Office: room 1030 NCPA, Phone: 915-7194

ENGR 604 or equivalent

A First Course in Turbulence H. Tennekes & J.L. Lumley, MIT Press, 1974

 

Turbulence J.O. Hinze, Mcgraw Hill, 1959

Introduction to Turbulence P.A. LLibby, Taylor & Francis Pub., 1996

Turbulence: The Legacy of A.N. Kolmogorov U. Frisch, Cambridge University Press, 1995

The Structure of Turbulent Shear Flow A.A. Townsend, Cambridge University Press, 1976

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes A. Papoulis, Mcgraw Hill, 1986

1. Introduction and Physical Description of turbulent flows

2. Governing equations of turnulent motions

3. Statistical analysis tools for turbulent flows

4. Experimental measurement techniques

5. Inreoducrion to numerical treatment of turbulent flows

6. Recent Advances

Grading will be based on in class participation, a take-home midterm exam and a final project.