An Informal Conceptual Introduction to Turbulence by Arkady Tsinober

An Informal Conceptual Introduction to Turbulence by Arkady Tsinober

The subject of turbulence remains and probably will remain as the most exciting one for the mind of researchers in a variety of ?elds. Since publication of the ?rst edition of this book in November 2001 a number of otherbooksonturbulencehaveappeared,forexampleBernardandWallace (2002), Oberlack and Busse (2002), Foias et al. (2001), Biskamp (2003), Davidson(2004),Jovanovich(2004),SagautandCambon(2008)tomention afew. Soonehastoaskagain thequestionwhyasecondeditionofonebook from a ?eld of so many on the same subject? Does it make any di?erence? Thereareadditionalreasonsapartofthosegiveninthe?rstedition. One of thebasic premises of this bookis thatWeabsolutelymustleave roomfor doubtor thereis noprogress and nolearning. Thereis nolearning without posing a question. And a question requires doubt...Now the freedom of doubt,whichisabsolutelyessentialforthedevelopmentofscience,wasborn from astruggle with constituted authorities...R. Feynmann (1964). This is closely related to the term 'conceptual ': the book has now a di?erent title An informal conceptual introduction to turbulence. One of the main f- tures of the ?rst edition was indeed its conceptual orientation. The second edition is an attempt to make this feature dominant. Consequently items whicharesecondaryfromthispointofview werereducedandeven removed in favour of those added which are important conceptually. This required addressing in more detail most common misconceptions, which are con- quencesoftheprofounddi?cultiesofthesubjectandwhichtravel fromone publication to another. Consequently a one page Appendix D listing some of these misconceptions in the ?rst edition became chapter 9 titled Ana- gies,misconceptions and ill de?ned concepts.

From the reviews of the second edition:

“The intention of the book under review is to serve as an introduction to a broad readership with an interest in turbulence… the discussion is better suited to scientists in the field … . Perhaps of most interest to the mathematically inclined reader is the discussion of ‘turbulence versus mathematics and vice versa’ … .” (Govind Menon, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 i)

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ISBN 13	9789400730380
ISBN 10	9400730381
Title	An Informal Conceptual Introduction to Turbulence
Author	Arkady Tsinober
Series	Fluid Mechanics And Its Applications
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer
Year published	2012-03-14
Number of pages	464
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