Multiscale Turbulent Transport

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: History of engineering and technology; 25° backward-slanted step; 3D perturbations of 2D steady base flow; alpha-effect; baroclinic vortex generation; breakage model; cascade; channel flow; chaotic advection; cloud micro-physics; compressible flow; defect turbulence; direct numerical simulation; Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS); droplets; eddy diffusivity; eddy viscosity; energy transfer; Euler equations; implicit LES; incompressibility; incompressible fluid; intermittency; Lagrangian chaos; linear stability analysis; magnetic mode; multiscale; n/a; Navier-Stokes equations (RANS); nematic electroconvection; OpenFOAM; optimal control; Padé approximant; PISO; Rayleigh-Bènard convection; Rayleigh-Taylor instability; recirculation bubble; relaxation filtering; Runge-Kutta (RK4); separation and reattachment; streak lift-up; structural sensitivity; time-dependent diffusion coefficient; transient evolution; turbulence; turbulence models; turbulence theory; turbulent-wake and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities; variable density flow; wall-resolved Large Eddy Simulation (LES); warm cloud top mixing; weak turbulence; WENO schemes
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• ISBN: 9783039282128; 9783039282135; books978-3-03928-213-5
• Access: Open Access

Turbulent transport is currently a prominent and ongoing investigation subject at the interface of methodologies from theory to numerical simulations and experiments, and it covers several spatiotemporal scales. Mathematical analysis, physical modelling, and engineering applications represent different facets of a classical, long-standing problem that is still far from being thoroughly comprehended. The goal of this Special Issue is to outline recent advances of such subjects as multiscale analysis in turbulent transport processes, Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions of turbulence, advection of particles and fields in turbulent flows, ideal or nonideal turbulence (unstationary/inhomogeneous/anisotropic/compressible), turbulent flows in biofluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics, and the control and optimization of turbulent transport. The SI is open to regular articles, review papers focused on the state of the art and the progress made over the last few years, and new research trends.