A First Course in Turbulence (The MIT Press) by Henk Tennekes (PDF)

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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 imponderables. 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. Moreover, the text has been developed for students, engineers, and scientists with different technical backgrounds and interests. Almost all flows, natural and man-made, are turbulent. Thus the subject is the concern of geophysical and environmental scientists (in dealing with atmospheric jet streams, ocean currents, and the flow of rivers, for example), of astrophysicists (in studying the photospheres of the sun and stars or mapping gaseous nebulae), and of engineers (in calculating pipe flows, jets, or wakes). Many such examples are discussed in the book. The approach taken avoids the difficulties of advanced mathematical development on the one side and the morass of experimental detail and empirical data on the other. As a result of following its midstream course, the text gives the student a physical understanding of the subject and deepens his intuitive insight into those problems that cannot now be rigorously solved. In particular, dimensional analysis is used extensively in dealing with those problems whose exact solution is mathematically elusive. Dimensional reasoning, scale arguments, and similarity rules are introduced at the beginning and are applied throughout. A discussion of Reynolds stress and the kinetic theory of gases provides the contrast needed to put mixing-length theory into proper perspective: the authors present a thorough comparison between the mixing-length models and dimensional analysis of shear flows. This is followed by an extensive treatment of vorticity dynamics, including vortex stretching and vorticity budgets. Two chapters are devoted to boundary-free shear flows and well-bounded turbulent shear flows. The examples presented include wakes, jets, shear layers, thermal plumes, atmospheric boundary layers, pipe and channel flow, and boundary layers in pressure gradients. The spatial structure of turbulent flow has been the subject of analysis in the book up to this point, at which a compact but thorough introduction to statistical methods is given. This prepares the reader to understand the stochastic and spectral structure of turbulence. The remainder of the book consists of applications of the statistical approach to the study of turbulent transport (including diffusion and mixing) and turbulent spectra.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Henk Tennekes is Director of Research Emeritus at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, and Emeritus Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He is the coauthor of A First Course in Turbulence (MIT Press, 1972).

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐It was posted as new. It WAS NOT new. Overpriced for the condition of it. It was slightly bowed and bit dirty on the front and back cover.

⭐Its a great book in turbulence as everybody knows and I don’t need to talk about that. Arrived very fast, it was brand new and good quality. I was afraid it would be some cheap copy, for the low price ($20), but its the original and hardbound. I’ve been wanting this book for so long and am really happy I got such a good bargain!I recommend it strongly

⭐Views too classical and hence obsolete.

⭐Classic pictures contained in this book are a must for hydraulicians. The new edition is of best quality. I absolutely recommend this book.

⭐One of the best possible books for the subject. Book was delivered before time in very good condition

⭐It is a very good book for turbulence study.

⭐What is to say about this pioneer book ? It is really “the” First course in Turbulence and a career companion.

⭐A classic text, and available for a decent price!

⭐Best text in the turbulence subject.

⭐It’s a great book to start with in the field of Turbulence. Many thanks to the author.I would recommended it for engineering discipline students who are working on problems relating to low speed aerodynamics or incompressible fluid flows. This book is mostly intended for post graduate students.The student must have a back ground in fluid mechanics because the material covered in the book assumes you have previous knowledge on Jets ,boundary layers , dimensionless numbers and most importantly the Navier-Stokes Equations.The book skims through some mass transport issues but the book is not intended for reactive flows.Derivations are presented in a simplified manner and get you to the required idea.An introduction to vortex dynamics is covered in chapter three.You can get through some chapters without any problems while other seem to be very strongly coupled with statistical mechanics methods.Basic statistics and probability knowledge is required including the need to refresh spectral methods info especially for the last three chapters.The first chapter is very well written and can give a quick introduction to turbulence.Chapter 4 Boundary Free Shear Flows is an introductory chapter but for more knowledge you can read through a book by Pope called Turbulent Flows or look for a book on Jet Flows.Chapter 5 Wall Bounded Shear Flows is an introductory chapter but for more knowledge you would have a look for a book called Boundary Layer Theory.The book covers several turbulence models starting from the very simple mixing length theory to the Reynolds Averaging method (RANS) Note that LES is not covered.Some times while reading the book like the wall bounded flows chapter you feel that some paragraphs don’t give enough understanding to your questions due to them been cut down to much in information density.i hope that was helpful good luck

⭐The eloquence of this book is unmatched

⭐The book I received is photostatic copies bounded in a hardcover like a tesis. This is an unacceptable practice.

⭐Pas trop mathématique et cependant rigoureux. De bons raisonnements physiques. Nombreuses illustrations de qualité.Je recommande ce texte comme introduction , avant de lire le livre de G.K.Batchelor ( Theory of homogeneous turbulence).

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