Venditti / Best / Church Coherent Flow Structures at Earth's Surface

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-52717-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten, E-Book

An expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulentflows with a focus on recently identified organizedstructures.
This book reviews the recent progress in the study of the turbulentflows that sculpt the Earth's surface, focusing inparticular on the organized structures that have been identified inrecent years within turbulent flows. These coherent flowstructures can include eddies or vortices at the scale ofindividual grains, through structures that scale with the flowdepth in rivers or estuaries, to the large-scale structure of flowsat the morphological or landform scale. These flow structuresare of wide interest to the scientific community because they playan important role in fluid dynamics and influence thetransport, erosion and deposition of sediment andpollutants in a wide variety of fluid flowenvironments.
Scientific knowledge of these structures has improved greatlyover the past 20 years as computational fluid dynamics hascome to play an increasing important part in building ourunderstanding of coherent flow structures across a broad rangeof scales.
Chapters comprise a series of major, invited papers and aselection of the most novel, innovative papers presented atthe second Coherent Flow Structures Conference held August 3-5,2011 at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BritishColumbia.
Chapters focus on six major themes:
* Dynamics of coherent flow structures (CFS) in geophysicalflows
* Interaction of turbulent flows, vegetation and ecologicalhabitats
* Coherent structure of atmospheric flows
* Numerical modeling of coherent flow structures
* Turbulence in open channel flows
* Coherent flow structures, sediment transport and morphologicalfeedbacks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Venditti, Jeremy G.

Best, James L.

Church, Michael

Hardy, Richard J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors, vii
Preface, xi
About the Companion Website, xiii
1 What is a Coherent Flow Structure in Geophysical Flow? 1
Jeremy G. Venditti, Richard J. Hardy, Michael Church, & James L. Best
2 Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers 17
Ronald J. Adrian
3 Structural Attributes of Turbulent Flow over a Complex Topography 25
Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez, Julio M. Barros, & Kenneth T. Christensen
4 Coherent Flow Structures in the Pore Spaces of Permeable Beds underlying a Unidirectional Turbulent Boundary Layer: A Review and some New Experimental Results 43
Gianluca Blois, James L. Best, Kenneth T. Christensen, Richard J. Hardy, & Gregory H. Sambrook Smith
5 Instabilities in Stratified Shear Flow 63
Gregory A. Lawrence, Edmund W. Tedford, & Jeffrey R. Carpenter
6 Scalar Turbulence within the Canopy Sublayer 73
Gabriel G. Katul, Daniela Cava, Mario Siqueira, & Davide Poggi
7 On the Structure of Wall Turbulence in the Thermally Neutral Atmospheric Surface Layer 97
Michele Guala, Jeff LeHew, Meredith Metzger, & Beverley J. McKeon
8 Critical Reflections on the Coherent Flow Structures Paradigm in Aeolian Geomorphology 111
Bernard O. Bauer, Ian J. Walker, Andreas C.W. Baas, Derek W.T. Jackson, Cheryl McKenna Neuman, Giles F.S. Wiggs, & Patrick A. Hesp
9 Coherent Flow Structures in Vegetated Channels 135
Heidi Nepf, Jeffrey Rominger, & Lijun Zong
10 Coherent Eddy Structures over Plant Canopies 149
Roger H. Shaw, Edward G. Patton, & John J. Finnigan
11 SPIV Analysis of Coherent Structures in a Vegetation Canopy Model Flow 161
Laurent Perret & Tony Ruiz