IUTAM Symposium on Asymptotic Methods for Turbulent Shear Flows at High Reynolds Numbers

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Session 1.
• Different approaches to asymptotic expansions in turbulent boundary layers (Invited lecture).
• Turbulent Poiseuille channel flow interpreted by composite expansions.
• A high Reynolds number analysis of turbulent heat transfer in the entrance region of a pipe or channel.
• Asymptotic analysis of turbulent flow for a rotating cylinder.
• Session 2.
• Asymptotics for turbulent shear flows: A survey of some French contributions (Invited lecture).
• Application of the defect formulation to the incompressible turbulent boundary layer.
• Axisymmetric turbulent sink flows.
• Wake layer in a turbulent boundary layer with pressure gradient: a new approach (Invited lecture).
• Session 3.
• Recent advances in wall-bounded shear flows. Survey of contributions from the USA (Invited lecture).
• Asymptotic and computational results for a turbulent jet impinging on a nearby wall.
• Asymptotic analysis of fully turbulent flows in slender convergent and divergent channels.
• Heat and momentum transfer in turbulent boundary layers in the presence of strong adverse pressure gradients.
• Similarity of turbulent shear flows: The natural convection boundary layer next to heated vertical surfaces.
• Section 4.
• Asympotic methods in turbulent combustion (Invited lecture).
• Asymptotic study of turbulent swirling jets.
• Longitudinal vortex embedded in turbulent Couette flow.
• Section 5.
• Progress in computation of rapid distortion of turbulent flows (Invited lecture).
• Structure of a confined turbulent wake under shear and irrotational strain.
• A theoretical model for nonlinear spots.
• Intermittency of turbulence and the scaling hypothesis.
• Analytical and numerical multiscale calculations for eddy viscosity.
• Section 6.
• Asymptotic stability of turbulent swirling jets fanning out along a plate.
• Lagrangian direct-interaction approximation for homogeneous isotropic turbulence.
• Generalised multiple expansion for the jet problem.
• Back of the envelope analysis of turbulence models.