Order in Chaos
Subtitle: The Physics of Transition to Turbulence
Publisher: Aylmer Express, Aylmer, Ontario
Published: 2011
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 87
Description: This presents a theory that transition to turbulence is caused by effects of coherent transverse sound energy, generated by the simple harmonic boundary layer flutter waves of transition as turbulence onsets, shifting the flow resistance to the boundary, where high resistance prevails. Sound energy has always been considered as an effect, rather than the cause of transition and turbulence. A radiological injection flow phenomenon, simple harmonic arteriographic standing waves, occurring at what should be turbulent flow rates, was the key to explaining transition. The absence of chaos in "turbulent flow" is evident in arteriographic standing waves, in the shear flows along stretches of sand (in wind and in water) and in the musical notes of edge tones – phenomena that occur at "turbulent" flow rates – and which current theory considers as a state of chaos.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I – Transition to Turbulence Along a Flat Plate; title: Part II – Transition to Turbulence in Tube Flow; title: Part III – Modulating Effects of Compliant Boundaries on Transition toTurbulence; title: Conclusion