Introduction to Interactive Boundary Layer Theory by Ian Sobey, Oxford
University Press, 拢45, ISBN 0198506759
Turbulent Flows by Stephen Pope, Cambridge University Press, 拢29.95,
ISBN 0521598869
THE actions of fluids intrigue artists, engineers, biologists and physicists
alike. Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings of turbulent eddies testify as much.
Practical topics include trivial events such as a drop of rain splashing into a
puddle, and the complexities of blood flowing through the heart and the flow
around a racing yacht or aerofoil.
To understand the physics of such flows you need to model them
mathematically, and this task often presents formidable complexities.…
