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Lawrence Sirovich will turn seventy on March 1, 2003. Larry's
academic life of over 45 years at the Courant Institute, Brown
University, Rockefeller University and the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine has touched many peo ple and several disciplines, from
fluid dynamics to brain theory. His con tributions to the kinetic
theory of gases, methods of applied mathematics, theoretical fluid
dynamics, hydrodynamic turbulence, the biophysics of vi sion and
the dynamics of neuronal populations, represent the creative work
of an outstanding scholar who was stimulated mostly by insatiable
curios ity. As a scientist, Larry has consistently offered fresh
outlooks on classical and difficult subjects, and moved into new
fields effortlessly. He delights in what he knows and does, and
sets no artificial boundaries to the range of his inquiry. Among
the more than fifty or so Ph. D. students and post docs that he has
mentored, many continue to make first-rate contributions themselves
and hold academic positions in the US and elsewhere. Larry's
scientific collaborators are numerous and distinguished. Those of
us who have known him well will agree that Larry's charm, above
all, is his taste, wit, and grace under fire. Larry has contributed
immensely to mathematics publishing. He be gan his career with
Springer by founding the Applied Mathematical Sci ences series
together with Fritz John and Joe LaSalle some 30 years ago. Later
he co-founded the Texts in Applied Mathematics series and more re
cently the Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics series.
This volume is a collection of fourteen papers, written by well-known authors, on aspects of applied mathematics, fluid dynamics, combustion, kinetic theory, condensed matter physics, computational neuroscience, biophysics and closely related areas. There are two uniting themes. First, the papers celebrate the long and durable contributions of Professor Lawrence Sirovich on the occasion of his turning seventy. Second, the threads of nonlinearity weave through all the problems discussed. The papers combine original research with expository style and make a fascinating reading for a diverse readership in applied mathematics and science.
Turbulence is ubiquitous in science, technology and daily life and
yet, despite years of research, our understanding of its
fundamental nature is still tentative and incomplete. More
generally, the tools required for a deep understanding of strongly
interacting many-body systems remain underdeveloped. Inspired by a
research programme held at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, this
book contains reviews by leading experts that summarize our current
understanding of the nature of turbulence from theoretical,
experimental, observational and computational points of view. The
articles cover a wide range of topics, including the scaling and
organized motion in wall turbulence, small scale structure,
dynamics and statistics of homogeneous turbulence, turbulent
transport and mixing, and effects of rotation, stratification and
magnetohydrodynamics, as well as superfluidity. The book will be
useful to researchers and graduate students interested in the
fundamental nature of turbulence at high Reynolds numbers.
Turbulence is widely recognized as one of the outstanding problems
of the physical sciences, but it still remains only partially
understood despite having attracted the sustained efforts of many
leading scientists for well over a century. In A Voyage Through
Turbulence we are transported through a crucial period of the
history of the subject via biographies of twelve of its great
personalities, starting with Osborne Reynolds and his pioneering
work of the 1880s. This book will provide absorbing reading for
every scientist, mathematician and engineer interested in the
history and culture of turbulence, as background to the intense
challenges that this universal phenomenon still presents.
The role of high performance computing in current research on
transitional and turbulent flows is undoubtedly very important.
This review volume provides a good platform for leading experts and
researchers in various fields of fluid mechanics dealing with
transitional and turbulent flows to synergistically exchange ideas
and present the state of the art in the fields.Contributed by
eminent researchers, the book chapters feature keynote lectures,
panel discussions and the best invited contributed papers.
Turbulence is widely recognized as one of the outstanding problems
of the physical sciences, but it still remains only partially
understood despite having attracted the sustained efforts of many
leading scientists for well over a century. In A Voyage Through
Turbulence we are transported through a crucial period of the
history of the subject via biographies of twelve of its great
personalities, starting with Osborne Reynolds and his pioneering
work of the 1880s. This book will provide absorbing reading for
every scientist, mathematician and engineer interested in the
history and culture of turbulence, as background to the intense
challenges that this universal phenomenon still presents.
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