Flow at Ultra-High Reynolds and Rayleigh Numbers : A Status Report by Katepalli R. Streenivasan (2011, Trade Paperback)

Springer New York

1461274648

9781461274643

143878378

Katepalli R. Streenivasan

Flow at Ultra-High Reynolds and Rayleigh Numbers : a Status REPORT

Trade Paperback

English

2011

Textbook

Xviii, 466 Pages

9.3in

0.4in

6.1in

25.9 Oz

1 Vol.

Qa808.2

Ultra-High Reynolds Number Flows Using Cryogenic Helium: An Overview.- Helium Flows at Ultra-High Reynolds and Rayleigh Numbers: Opportunities and Challenges.- European Large Scale Helium Refrigeration.- Cryogenic Wind Tunnels for Aerodynamic Testing.- Application of Magnetic Suspension and Balance Systems to Ultra-High Reynolds Number Facilities.- The Temperature and Pressure Dependencies of Fluid Properties: Implications for Achieving Ultra-High Rayleigh and Reynolds And Rayleigh Numbers.- Advanced Measurement Techniques for Flow Diagnostics.- Current Status of Particle Image Velocimetry and Laser Doppler Anemometry Instrumentation.- Application of a Laser Doppler Velocimeter and Some Visualization Methods to the Measurement of He II Thermo-Fluid Dynamic Phenomena.- Cryogenic Thermometry for Turbulence Research: An Overview.- Realization of a 107 Reynolds Number Helium Facility.- The Mean Velocity Profile in Turbulent Pipe Flow.- Instrument Development For High Reynolds Number Flows in Liquid Helium.- Free Thermal Convection in Low Temperature Helium Gas.- Buoyant Plumes and Internal Waves: Two Experiments in Turbulent Convection.- High-Rayleigh Number Turbulence of a Low Prandtl Number Fluid.- Recent Velocity Measurements in Turbulent Thermal Convection.- Convection in 3He-Superfluid-4He: A Novel System for Studying Convective Instabilities and Turbulence.- Experiments on Strong Turbulence: Do We Really Measure What We Say We Measure'.- Turbulent Mixing of a Passive Scalar.- A Brief Overview of the RHIC Cryogenic System.- High Reynolds Number Testing Requirements in (Civilian) Aeronautics.- Considerations For Small Detectors in High Reynolds Number Experiments.- Helium Gas Turbulence Experiments in Grenoble: Techniques and Results.- Turbulence Driven Between Counter-rotating Disks in Low Temperature Helium Gas.- Some Issues in Geophysical Turbulence and the Need for Accurate High Reynolds Number Measurements.- Does Fully-Developed Turbulence Exist'.- Hydrodynamic Turbulence: a 19th Century Problem with a Challenge for the 21st Century.- Are Scalings of Turbulence Universal'.- Vortex Lines in Non-Uniform Flows.- Modeling of Sea Storms on Cryogenic Installations.- Decay of Grid Turbulence in Superfluid 4He.- First Images of Controlled Convection in Liquid Helium.- High Reynolds number [R? = O (106)] Boundary Layer Turbulence in the Atmospheric Surface layer Above Western Utah's Salt Flats.

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Mechanics / Fluids, Mechanics / Aerodynamics, Mechanics / Hydrodynamics, Chemistry / Inorganic

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