With contributions from leading researchers in the field, and including recent breakthrough work, this collection of recent results on near wall turbulence includes theory, new experiments, DNS, and modeling with RANS, LES and Low Order Dynamical Systems.

This book will consist of a coherent collection of recent results on near wall turbulence including theory, new experiments, DNS, and modeling with RANS, LES and Low Order Dynamical Systems.

The aim of this Advanced Research Workshop was to bring together Physicists, Applied Mathematicians and Fluid Dynamicists, including very specially experimentalists, to review the available knowledge on the global structural aspects of turbulent flows, with an especial emphasis on open systems, and to try to reach a consensus on their possible relationship to recent advances in the understanding of the behaviour of low dimensional dynamical systems and amplitude equations. A lot has been learned during recent years on the non-equilibrium behaviour of low dimen sional dynamical systems, including some fluid flows (Rayleigh-Benard, Taylor-Couette, etc. ). These are mostly closed flows and many of the global structural features of the low dimensional systems have been observed in them, including chaotic behaviour, period doubling, intermit tency, etc. . It has also been shown that some of these flows are intrinsically low dimensional, which accounts for much of the observed similarities. Open flows seem to be different, and experimental observations point to an intrinsic high dimensionality. However, some of the tran sitional features of the low dimensional systems have been observed in them, specially in the intermittent behaviour of subcritical flows (pipes, channels, boundary layers with suction, etc. ), and in the large scale geometry of coherent structures of free shear flows (mixing layers, jets and wakes).

Las Obras de Esquilache como pieza clave para la comprension del papel del amateurismo aristocratico en la formacion del campo literario barroco espanol. Este volumen ofrece el primer estudio monografico sobre uno de los poetas mas citados y peor conocidos del barroco espanol: Francisco de Borja, principe de Esquilache. Sus Obras en verso, publicadas por primera vez en 1648,constituyen uno de los proyectos laureados mas elaborados y conscientes de la primera mitad del XVII. No solo se trata de uno de los pocos cancioneros barrocos espanoles curados y editados por su propio autor, sino tambien del primer volumen de poesia dado a la imprenta por un miembro de la alta aristocracia castellana. En el, y desde la distancia de los anos y la poesia, el principe de Esquilache recrea e instrumentaliza su estrecha relacion con desos miembros de la republica barroca de las letras [desde Lope de Vega a los Argensola o los condes de Lemos], individualiza su posicion con respecto a la polemica gongorina, a la vez que justifica sus anos de servicio politico a la corona o su derecho legitimo al titulo de Grande. Desde una perspectiva socioliteraria, este estudio propone la recuperacion de las Obras de Esquilache como pieza clave para la comprension del papel del amateurismo aristocratico en la formacion del campo literario barroco espanol. JAVIER JIMENEZ BELMONTE es profesor adjunto en la Universidad de Fordham.

Nanopollutants are nanoparticles that have escaped into the environment and can include engineered nanoparticles as well as nanoparticles that are products of degradation (e.g. nanoplastics) or other processes. As many of these particles are only recently developed or described there is still a lot to learn about where they come from, where they end up and what risks they pose to health and the environment. Offering a wide overview of the most recent research on these emerging contaminants, from the investigation of their sources and fate to the analytical developments for their detection and analysis, this book gives the reader a full picture of the global research on engineered and natural nanoparticles in the environment. Taking a forward-looking perspective with chapters on new nanopollutants, regulatory direction and occurrence in different environmental compartments, this book is a great resource for anyone working in environmental chemistry, nanoscience or environmental regulation.

La primera monografia academica en ocuparse de la historia del icono cleopatrico en la cultura espanola. The first thorough study of the history of the Cleopatra icon in Spanish culture. Estetizar el exceso: Cleopatra en la cultura hispanica medieval y del Siglos de Oro