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Springer Interdisciplinary Aspects Of Turbulence 2008 Edition by Wolfgang Hillebrandt Friedrich Kupka
What do combustion engines fusion reactors weather forecast ocean ?ows our sun and stellar explosions in outer space have in common? Of course the physics and the length and time scales are vastly di?erent in all cases but it is alsowellknownthatinallofthemonsomerelevantlengthscalesthematerial ?ows that govern the dynamical and/or secular evolution of the systems are chaotic and often unpredictable: they are said to be turbulent. In fact the term "turbulence" is used for an enormous variety of p- nomena in very di?erent ?elds including geophysics astrophysics and - gineering. Unfortunately these communities do not talk to each other too often. Therefore back in 2005 we organized a workshop on "Interdis- plinary Aspects of Turbulence" at the Ringberg Castle in the Bavarian Alps to discuss topics such as the basic concepts of turbulence the di?- ent approaches of modelling and simulations used in the various areas and also possible tests. This workshop was a great success and the proceedings can be found on the Internet (www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/mpa/publications/ proceedings/proceedings-en.html) as well as pdf-?les of several of the talks presented (www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/hydro/Turbulence/). Table of contents : An Introduction to Turbulence.- Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Dynamics.- Turbulent Convection and Numerical Simulations in Solar and Stellar Astrophysics.- Turbulence in Astrophysical and Geophysical Flows.- Turbulence in the Lower Troposphere: Second-Order Closure and Mass#x2013;Flux Modelling Frameworks.- Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence.- Turbulent Combustion in Thermonuclear Supernovae.- ODT: Stochastic Simulation of Multi-scale Dynamics.