Intermittency in Turbulent Flows [Hardcover]

This volume was the product of a workshop held at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, and examines turbulence, intermittency, nonlinear dynamics and fluid mechanics.The dynamics of many nonlinear systems gravitate around a few common central themes: intermittency, order/coherence and disorder. Intermittency may be the universal outcome of a large class of nonlinear systems, however the universality properties of specific nonlinear systems, remain open questions. This volume aims to capture and summarise recent developments, encourage cross-fertilization of ideas, lay out research directions for the future and provide an overview of our current understanding of the subject.The dynamics of many nonlinear systems gravitate around a few common central themes: intermittency, order/coherence and disorder. Intermittency may be the universal outcome of a large class of nonlinear systems, however the universality properties of specific nonlinear systems, remain open questions. This volume aims to capture and summarise recent developments, encourage cross-fertilization of ideas, lay out research directions for the future and provide an overview of our current understanding of the subject.The dynamics of many nonlinear systems gravitate around a few common central themes: intermittency, order/coherence and disorder. Intermittency may be the universal outcome of a large class of nonlinear systems; however, the universality properties of specific nonlinear systems remain open questions. This volume consists of articles by leading figures who all participated in a workshop held at the Newton Institute in Cambridge.1. Introduction; 2. Control of intermittency in near-wall turbulent flow P. N. Bossey and J. L. Lumley; 3. Sil'nikov chaos in fluid flows T. Mullin, A. Juel and T. Peacock; 4. Phase turbulence and heteroclinic cycles F. H. Busse, O. Brausch, M. Jaletzky and W. Pesch; 5. ODE approach for the enstrophy of a class of 3D Euler flows K. Ohkitani; 6. Scale separation and regullS*