Download or read book An Introduction To Turbulence written by Paul A. Libby and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a description of turbulence, its various manifestations, and a brief history of study, this text also incorporates modern perspectives on turbulence. The text also covers such topics as intermittency and the resultant conditional sampling and averaging of turbulent flows, the role of large scale computation of the fundamental equations of fluid mechanics in providing information on variables, and asymptotic methods which are used to expose important features of turbulent flows. Meaningful exercises are included in every section.