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Theory of Turbulence

Publications


Textbook

  • The Physics of Fluid Turbulence, W.D. McComb, Oxford University Press (1990).
Selected Journal Papers
  • Conditional averaging procedure for the elimination of the small-scale modes from incompressible fluid turbulence at high Reynolds numbers, W.D. McComb and A.G. Watt, Phys. Rev. Letters 65, 3281 (1990).
  • Conditional averaging procedure for problems with mode-mode coupling, W.D. McComb, W. Roberts and A.G. Watt, Phys. Rev. A 45, 3507 (1992).
  • Rederivation and further assessment of the LET theory of isotropic turbulence, as applied to passive scalar convection, W.D. McComb, M.J. Filipiak and V. Shanmugasundaram, J. Fluid Mech. 245, 279 (1992).
  • Theory of turbulence, W.D. McComb, Rep. Prog. Phys. 58, 1117-1205 (1995).
Recent Conference Papers
  • Investigation of renormalization group methods for the numerical simulation of isotropic turbulence, W.D. McComb, T.-J. Yang, A.J. Young and L. Machiels, presented at the Eleventh Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Grenoble, France, September 8-10 (1997).
  • Explicit-scales projections of the partitioned non-linear term in direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equation, W.D. McComb and A.J. Young, presented at the Second Monte Verita Colloquium on Fundamental Problematic Issues in Turbulence, Ascona, Switzerland, March 23-27 (1998).