IUTAM Symposium on Geometry and Statistics of Turbulence: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at the Shonan International Village Center, Hayama (Kanagawa-ken), Japan, November 1–5, 1999

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Opening Address....Pages 3-12
The Topology of Scalar Fields in 2D and 3D Turbulence....Pages 13-22
Bounds for Turbulent Transport....Pages 23-31
Bulk Dissipation in Shear Layers with Suction....Pages 33-38
Trying a metric on atmospheric flows....Pages 39-46
On the Analogy between Two-Dimensional Vorticesand Stellar Systems....Pages 47-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Self-Similarity and Coherence in the Turbulent Cascade....Pages 57-66
Coherent Fine Scale Structure in Turbulence....Pages 67-76
Coherent Fine Scale Eddies in Turbulent Shear Flows and It’s Relation to Anisotropy....Pages 77-82
Shear Stress and Dissipation Intermittency in High-Reynolds-Number Turbulence....Pages 83-88
Characteristic Time Scales and Energy Transfer in MHD Turbulence....Pages 89-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Statistics of Transverse Velocity Differences in Turbulence....Pages 97-106
On a Complete Statistical Characterization of Turbulence....Pages 107-116
Statistical Laws Governed by Vortex Structures in Fully Developed Turbulence....Pages 117-126
Probability Density Function of Longitudinal Velocity Increment....Pages 127-132
Statistics of Small-Scale Structure of Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence....Pages 133-138
On Universality of Statistics of Pressure Field in Homogeneous Turbulence....Pages 139-144
A Statistical Law of Velocity Circulations in Fully Developed Turbulence....Pages 145-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Lagrangian Method for Multiple Correlations in Passive Scalar Advection....Pages 153-173
Anomalous Scaling in Passive Scalar Advection and Lagrangian Shape Dynamics....Pages 175-184
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Correlation between Energy and Temperature Dissipation Rates in Turbulent Flows....Pages 185-190
Simulation of Scalar Fluctuation Field by a Non-Buoyant Plume in Grid-Generated Turbulence by Random Fourier Modes Method....Pages 191-196
Front Matter....Pages 196-196
Spatiotemporal Structure of Tubular Vortices in Turbulence....Pages 199-204
Geometric Aspects of the Interaction of Vorticity and Strain in Homogeneous Sheared Turbulence....Pages 205-210
Motion of a Curved Vortex Filament: Higher-Order Asymptotics....Pages 211-216
Statistics of Turbulence around a Columnar Vortex....Pages 217-222
Study of the Geometry of Flow Patterns in a Compressible Wake....Pages 223-228
Interaction of a Vortex Ring Linked with a Vortex Filament....Pages 229-234
Mechanism of Flame Propagation along a Vortex Tube....Pages 235-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Mapping Closure for Non-Gaussian Velocity Fields....Pages 243-248
Coherent Structure and Subgrid-Scale Energy Transfer in Turbulence....Pages 249-254
A Dynamical Model for Turbulence....Pages 255-260
Two- and Three- Dimensional Behavior of the Large Scales in Rotating Turbulence....Pages 261-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Comments on high Rayleigh number convection....Pages 269-277
The Dynamics of Structures of T-Vorticity in 2D Free Convection Turbulence....Pages 279-284
Structure of Homogeneous Rotating Turbulence under Stable Density Stratification....Pages 285-290
Linear Processes in Unsteady Stratified Sheared Turbulence....Pages 291-296
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Direct Numerical Simulation of Transition in Plane Poiseuille Flow....Pages 299-304
On the Regeneration Mechanism of Turbulence in the Channel Flow....Pages 305-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Turbulence in Polymer Solutions....Pages 313-318
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Turbulence Modulation Due to Solid Particles Moving with Vortex Shedding....Pages 319-324
Spectral Features of Axial Velocity and Concentration in a High Schmidt Number Turbulent Jet....Pages 325-330
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Structures and Intermittency in Rotating Pipes....Pages 333-338
Statistics of Open-Channel Turbulence by Using Simultaneous Measurements of all Three Components of Turbulent Fluctuations with Two-Sets of LDAs....Pages 339-344
Generation Mechanism of Turbulence-Driven Secondary Currents in Open-Channel Flows....Pages 345-350
Turbulence Measurements and Conditional Sampling Analysis on Coherent Vortices in Unsteady Open-Channel Flows over Dune Bed....Pages 351-356
Dye Visualization and P.I.V. in the Cross-Stream Plane of a Turbulent Channel Flow....Pages 357-364
Front Matter....Pages 365-365
Vorticity Structures and Intermittency in Near Wall Turbulence....Pages 367-372
The Use of PIV in Turbulent Boundary Layer Flows....Pages 373-378
Boundary Layer Intermittency Model....Pages 379-384
Universal Property of Autonomus Layer in Near-Wall Turbulence....Pages 385-390
Back Matter....Pages 391-400