Analysis of Turbulent Flows with Computer Programs, 3rd Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

The first edition of this book, Analysis of Turbulent Boundary Layers, was written in the period between 1970 and early 1974 when the subject of turbulence was in its early stages and that of turbulence modeling in its infancy. The subject had advanced considerably over the years with greater emphasis on the use of numerical methods and an increasing requirement and ability to calculate turbulent two- and three-dimensional flows with and without separation. The tools for experimentation were still the traditional Pitot tube and hot wire-anemometer so that the range of flows that could be examined was limited and computational methods still included integral methods and a small range of procedures based on the numerical ...