Turbulence in the Atmosphere

by John C. Wyngaard

Overview

Based on his over forty years of research and teaching, John C. Wyngaard's textbook is an excellent up-to-date introduction to turbulence in the atmosphere and in engineering flows for advanced students, and a reference work for researchers in the atmospheric sciences. Part I introduces the concepts and equations of turbulence. It includes a rigorous introduction to the principal types of numerical modeling of turbulent flows. Part II describes turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. Part III covers the foundations of the statistical representation of turbulence and includes illustrative examples of stochastic problems that can be solved analytically. The book treats atmospheric and engineering turbulence in a unified way, gives clear explanation of the fundamental concepts of modeling turbulence, and has an up-to-date treatment of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. Student exercises are included at the ends of chapters, and worked solutions are available online for use by course instructors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521887694
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/28/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	406
Product dimensions:	7.13(w) x 10.04(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

John C. Wyngaard's experience in turbulence research and teaching spans the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, the Wave Propagation Laboratory of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, the Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the Department of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, where he developed a sequence of courses on turbulence. This book is based on those courses. He has published over 100 refereed journal papers covering theoretical, observational, and numerical modeling aspects of engineering and geophysical turbulence.

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. A Grammar of Turbulence: 1. Introduction; 2. Getting to know turbulence; 3. Equations for averaged variables; 4. Turbulent fluxes; 5. Conservation equations for covariances; 6. Large-eddy dynamics, the energy cascade, and large-eddy simulation; 7. Kolmogrov scaling, its extensions, and two-dimensional turbulence; Part II. Turbulence in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: 8. The equations of atmospheric turbulence; 9. The atmospheric boundary layer; 10. The atmospheric surface layer; 11. The convective boundary layer; 12. The stable boundary layer; Part III. Statistical Representation of Turbulence: 13. Probability densities and distributions; 14. Isotropic tensors; 15. Covariances, autocorrelations, and spectra; 16. Statistics in turbulence analysis; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...the exposition in Turbulence in the Atmosphere is systematic, clear, and self-contained. ... The author presents numerous problems, both qualitative and quantitative, at the end of each section, so the book could function well as a text for a course ... Wyngaard's accessible treatment of difficult topics also makes the book a useful reference. The author clearly enjoys the subject and the book is enjoyable to read." - Physics Today

"Wyngaard writes very clearly.... I would recommend this excellent introduction to anyone who wishes to gain an overview of atmospheric turbulence." - Dale Hess, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal, May 2011

"..It seems to me that the book should be included in the library of every researcher in the field." - Mario Bertolotti, Contemporary Physics, March 2011

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