Tubes, sheets and singularities in fluid dynamics
Subtitle: proceedings of the NATO ARW held in Zakopane, Poland, 2-7 September 2001
By: sponsored as an IUTAM symposium by the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics ; edited by K. Bajer and H.K. Moffatt.
Contributors: Bajer, K.; Moffatt, H. K. 1935-
Series: Fluid mechanics and its applications -- v. 71.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Fluid dynamics -- Congresses; Vortex-motion -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Modern experiments and numerical simulations show that the long-known coherent structures in turbulence take the form of elongated vortex tubes and vortex sheets. The evolution of vortex tubes may result in spiral structures which can be associated with the spectral power laws of turbulence. The mutual stretching of skewed vortex tubes, when they are close to each other, causes rapid growth of vorticity. Whether this process may or may not lead to a finite-time singularity is one of the famous open problems of fluid dynamics. This book contains the proceedings of the NATO ARW and IUTAM Symposium held in Zakopane, Poland, 2-7 September 2001. The papers presented, carefully reviewed by the International Scientific Committee, cover various aspects of the dynamics of vortex tubes and sheets and of their analogues in magnetohydrodynamics and in quantum turbulence. The book should be a useful reference for all researchers and students of modern fluid dynamics.
Notes: Include bibliographical references and indexes.