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A Voyage Through Turbulence
Peter Davidson
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Description for A Voyage Through Turbulence
Paperback. Biographies of twelve of the leading personalities in turbulence research chart the development of the subject from Reynolds onward. Editor(s): Davidson, Peter A.; Kaneda, Yukio; Moffatt, Keith; Sreenivasan, Katepalli R. Num Pages: 450 pages, 65 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PHDF; TGMF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658. 450 pages, 65 b/w illus. Editor(s): Davidson, Peter A.; Kaneda, Yukio; Moffatt, Keith; Sreenivasan, Katepalli R. Biographies of twelve of the leading personalities in turbulence research chart the development of the subject from Reynolds onward. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: PHDF; TGMF. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight: 658.
Turbulence is widely recognized as one of the outstanding problems of the physical sciences, but it still remains only partially understood despite having attracted the sustained efforts of many leading scientists for well over a century. In A Voyage Through Turbulence we are transported through a crucial period of the history of the subject via biographies of twelve of its great personalities, starting with Osborne Reynolds and his pioneering work of the 1880s. This book will provide absorbing reading for every scientist, mathematician and engineer interested in the history and culture of turbulence, as background to the intense challenges that ... Read more
Turbulence is widely recognized as one of the outstanding problems of the physical sciences, but it still remains only partially understood despite having attracted the sustained efforts of many leading scientists for well over a century. In A Voyage Through Turbulence we are transported through a crucial period of the history of the subject via biographies of twelve of its great personalities, starting with Osborne Reynolds and his pioneering work of the 1880s. This book will provide absorbing reading for every scientist, mathematician and engineer interested in the history and culture of turbulence, as background to the intense challenges that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
450
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
657g
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521149310
SKU
V9780521149310
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About Peter Davidson
Peter A. Davidson is Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Yukio Kaneda is Professor in the Department of Computational Science and Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Nagoya, Japan. Keith Moffatt is Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan is ... Read more
Reviews for A Voyage Through Turbulence
I highly recommend A Voyage Through Turbulence to all scientists, engineers, historians and philosophers of science, students, and to even the broader readership of anyone who is interested in the onset and nurturing of creative thoughts. Turbulence connoisseurs will savor devouring the book, but even the non-specialists will still get something utilitarian out of it. Mohamed ... Read more