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Includes bibliographical references.

1. Overall introduction -- 1.1. Initial remarks -- 1.2. General features of turbulence -- 1.3. The major effects of turbulence -- 1.4. Why turbulence? Its source -- 1.5. Subject giants : C-L-M-H Navier and G G Stokes

2. The governing equations -- 2.1. Limiting assumptions -- 2.2. Basic equations for laminar flows -- 2.3. Vorticity and the rates of strain and rotation -- 2.4. The averaged mean flow equations for turbulent flows -- 2.5. The Reynolds stress equations -- 2.6. The turbulent kinetic energy equation -- 2.7. The enstrophy transport equation -- 2.8. Subject giant : O Reynolds

3. The scales of motion -- 3.1. Initial remarks -- 3.2. Order-of-magnitude analysis -- 3.3. The small scales -- 3.4. Mechanisms of interscale energy transfer -- 3.5. The energy spectrum -- 3.6. Subject giants : A Kolmogorov and G K Batchelor

4. Statistical functions and tools -- 4.1. Initial remarks -- 4.2. Amplitude-domain statistics -- 4.3. Time-domain characteristics -- 4.4. The spectral density function -- 4.5. Taylor's frozen turbulence hypothesis -- 4.6. Issues in the digital processing of turbulence signals -- 4.7. Subject giant : J L Lumley

5. Canonical turbulent flows -- 5.1. Homogeneous isotropic turbulence -- 5.2. Homogeneous shear flow turbulence (HSFT) -- 5.3. Subject giant : S Corrsin

6. Free turbulent shear flows -- 6.1. Initial remarks -- 6.2. The general approach -- 6.3. The axisymmetric jet -- 6.4. Axisymmetric wakes -- 6.5. Planar flows -- 6.6. Concluding discussion -- 6.7. Subject giants : A A Townsend

7. Internal wall-bounded flows -- 7.1. Initial remarks -- 7.2. Couette flows -- 7.3. Channel flows -- 7.4. Pipe flows -- 7.5. Subject giant : G I Taylor

8. External wall-bounded flows -- 8.1. Introductory remarks -- 8.2. Laminar boundary layers -- 8.3. Turbulent boundary layers -- 8.4. The turbulence properties -- 8.5. The turbulence structure -- 8.6. Effects of pressure gradients -- 8.7. Effects of roughness -- 8.8. Subject giants : L Prandtl

9. Turbulent mixing -- 9.1. Initial remarks -- 9.2. Molecular diffusion -- 9.3. The scalar transport equation -- 9.4. Turbulent transport equations -- 9.5. Two perspectives on point-source dispersion -- 9.6. Optimising mixing and stirring in industrial flows -- 9.7. The behaviour of scalar fields in free-shear flows -- 9.8. The scales of turbulent mixing -- 9.9. Subject giants : L F Richardson -- 10. Epilogue.

This book presents an introduction to the fundamentals of turbulent flow. Its focus is on understanding and simplifying the equations of motion for various classes of flow, so as to elucidate the most crucial and practically important aspects of the physics.

Final year engineering or physical science undergraduates and/or first year graduate students starting to study any fluid dynamical phenomenon which includes regions of turbulent flow.

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Ian Castro was Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Founder-Director of the Environmental Flow Research Centre at the University of Surrey. Since 2000 he has been at the University of Southampton, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Fluid Dynamics. Christina Vanderwel is Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. She is a previous holder of a Marie Curie Fellowship and a current holder of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.

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