Turbulent Flows 1st Edition by Stephen B. Pope (PDF)

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Turbulent Flows is an up-to-date and comprehensive graduate text on this important topic in fluid dynamics. The book consists of two parts: Part I provides a general introduction to turbulent flows, how they behave, how they can be described quantitatively, and their fundamental physical processes. Part II is concerned with different approaches for modeling, or simulating, turbulent flows. Key appendices present the necessary mathematical techniques. While primarily intended for engineering graduate students, this book will also be valuable to students in applied mathematics, physics, oceanography and atmospheric sciences, as well as to researchers and practicing engineers.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Review “This book is a welcome addition to the literature on turbulence. It will serve well as a textbook.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics”The author made a strong pedagogical effort in writing this book. The text is supplemented by many exercises that can give a good support for courses on this subject. Moreover, most of what an engineer needs to know about the subject of fluid turbulence is covered in reasonable depth. This text is a welcome addition to the literature on turbulence, since it is the first book dedicated to the modeling of turbulence and, hence, fully dedicated to engineering students.” Mathematical Reviews”The book is intended as a graduate text designed for teaching and…it is a complete success. The author managed, in an excellent way, the balance between classical theory, research results, and phenomenological observations… really fills the gap between the excellent (but sometimes dated) old classical books and the recent specific monographs focused on particular aspects of turbulence. This reviewer strongly recommends the purchase of Turbulent Flows to all students and researchers whose field of interest is in turbulent flows and their numerical modeling. The purchase of this book by libraries should be considered a ‘must’ since the text can be classified as one of the pearls in the field.” Applied Mechanics Reviews”Pope’s book represents the outstading contribution to the pedagogy of turbulence since Tennekes and Lumley’s book…Not only does it present turbulence fundamentals in a lucid and readable manner, it also utilizes in an optimum manner various tools of learning and teaching turbulence: physical insight, mathematical derivations, scaling arguments, and experimental and DNS data…the book should be well received in both academia and industry. It will be useful to students entering the feild of turbulence as well as to experienced researchers and practicing engineers.” AIAA Jrnl Book Description Graduate text on turbulent flow, an important topic in fluid mechanics.

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

⭐I’m a graduate student doing research on large eddy simulation, and this is the turbulence book I always keep within arm’s reach. This book is a great reference for basic concepts regarding turbulent flows as well as numerical simulations of turbulence, i.e. Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) modeling, Large Eddy Simulation (LES), and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). Part I of the book deals with some of the fundamentals of turbulence: the statistical approach to turbulence, free-shear and wall-bounded flows, and Kolmogorov theory. Part II deals with turbulence simulation and modeling. He discusses RANS (both eddy viscosity and Reynolds stress modeling), PDF methods, DNS, and LES. While the material in Part I is covered in greater detail by other authors (i.e. Tennekes & Lumley, Hinze, etc.), it still is very useful for someone becoming acquainted with turbulent flows for the first time. The material in Part II is perhaps the most valuable part of the book. It contains a great introduction to turbulent simulation and modeling without being overly technical.

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⭐This book was a requirement for a PhD level turbulence course. Upon working with it and from it for four months, I am able to draw the following conclusions: 1.) any time that you wanted more understanding of a particular matter, say the method (not an explicit solution) upon which a certain equation was derived, it is left up to the reader as an exercise; 2.) there is no explanation of the physical significance of any proposed equation or model, rather, it is a mere consequence of mathematics; 3.) hand waving! When in doubt, just hand wave or omit and present a solution!; 4.) there is no explanation of what a particular variable may be, rather, it magically appears at some point within a chapter to help move the material along; 5.) the explanation of models (i.e. Reynolds-stress, k-omega, etc.) are as in-depth as the CFX or Fluent user manual (i.e. there is no depth), lacking any technicality. It is quite a shame that this text does not compare to those of Gleck, Wilcox or Piersol. It is also a shame that this text lacks any depth of understanding by presenting only a cursory overview of stochastic tools applicable to turbulent flow.

⭐When you start working with turbulence modeling everyone recommends this book. However, I would start reading something more simple and short, because I found this book to be very tedious and hard to read at first, although after a while you can appreciate how complete and detailed it is.

⭐There are many text books in this field. this is one of the most comprehensive and well explained turbulence text books.The author does a very good job covering so many topics in this growing field, and many of the more minor concepts are explained in the exercises which is one of the advantages of this bookIf you want to only buy one book in this subject then it has to be this one!!

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⭐This book is by far the worst book I have ever read in my whole entire life. It is confusing, it lacks evidence or proof and derives equations fast left and right out of no where. Overall it lacks consistency and cannot be thought of as a good science or engineering book. The author uses obscure language in his approach, completely ignoring the audience and rather presenting material in a selfish and self centered way. At one point the author reduces the navier stokes equations to almost a single letter. What is the point???? I can take any equation in physics and engineering and reduce it down to a single letter, but am I moron? no… go invest somewhre else and consider buying other alternatives to this nightmare of a book…

⭐a must in turbulence

⭐I would like to thank the author for this marvelous piece of work, intended for postgraduate students. It’s very well written, simplified for the reader and provides lots of links to reference names if the reader wants to go in more detail. For a researcher who works in turbulent flows this book should be on his library shelf. This book is for non reactive flows, incompressible flows, if you want to go ahead and research in turbulent reactive flows then the book by Rodney Fox is maybe a good title to be added to your library shelf. You can rely on this book for validating and checking your experimental and numerical simulation tests. What is meant by that after making your measurement from your experiments you can compare you velocity profiles that you got by the velocity profiles provided in the book. The same applies for validating your Numerical simulation by checking that you got the right energy spectrum slope. The book provides a short description on DNS and Turbulent viscosity models, while LES and PDF models are covered with a generous description. The book has lots of exercises, it would be beneficial if the solutions for these exercise are available online.The book covers free share flows, scales of turbulent flows and wall flows. The first two are described in lots of detail the last is well written but a more through description can be found in the Boundary Layer Theory book by Schlichting .Things that will be learnt from the book:1-Turbulent flows are studied by studying flow patterns, the flow pattern is captured by knowing the velocity components at each measured point. Each flow problem has its own characteristic pattern, this leads to parameters that are vital to calculate for the studied case, example for jet flows is energy production and energy dissipation, for wall shear flows is the friction coefficient etc.2-The focus of the book on the length scale characterization for the studied flow is to specify by the researcher what is the role of the length scales are playing, are they dissipating the motion or are they producing the energy and what are their sizes which means that the researcher is lead to the energy cascade.3-It covers and summarizers different turbulent flow models and illustrates their pros and cons. Focusing mostly on LES and PDF models.4-The researcher is lead to know how to study and approach his studied case that he encounters during his work.Finally what I can say is as the Vatican has its own pope, turbulence has its pope.I hope that was help full.

⭐The book was a counterfeit, and therefore poorly printed.

⭐Sono molto deluso, ho effettuato l’acquisto dopo averlo sfogliato in biblioteca. Una volta arrivato non aveva nulla a che fare con quello visto dal vivo: la carta non è patinata ma semplice carta comune, la rilegatura fa pena (sfogliato 10 volte perde le pagine) e la copertina sembra di velina (anche quello della biblioteca non aveva la copertina rigida ma almeno era in cartoncino!!!)

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⭐Il libro é stato acquistato perché consigliato in un corso universitario. Sono rimasto soddisfatto dell’acquisto. Gli argomenti trattati risultano alle volte difficili ad una prima lettura, tuttavia essi sono presentati in modo chiaro e graduale.

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⭐Probably the most referred & cited book by researchers [dealing with turbulent flows] across the globe.A must book for one, who is willing to do research in Turbulent Flows; especially utilizing the Statistical tools.

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