Advances in Turbulence

I Instability and Transition. Theory and Experiments.- Instability and Transition.- An Experimental Investigation of Transition to Turbulence in Taylor-Couette Flow Using Digital Image Processing.- Dynamical Instabilities and Transition to Turbulence in Spherical Gap Flows.- On Transition to Turbulence in Boundary Layers.- Instability and Transition of Flow in a Two-Dimensional Channel.- The Entrainment of Particles by a Turbulent Spot in a Laminar Boundary Layer.- Modal Approach to Low Prandtl Number Thermal Convection.- II Chaotic Behaviour of Non-Linear Systems and Turbulent Fields.- Chaotic Behaviour in a Non-Linear System: Turbulence in Rayleigh Benard Convection.- Chaos Through Biperiodicity.- A Topological Model for the Onset of Chaotic Motions in the Blasius Boundary Layer.- One-Dimensional Analog of the Saltzman-Lorenz Problem for Thermal Convection.- III Direct and Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence.- On Direct and Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence.- The Pressure-Strain Correlation of a Turbulent Homogeneous Shear Flow Under Strongly-Stable Stratification.- Normalization of High-Resolution Raster Display Applied to Turbulent Fields.- Large Eddy Simulations of Isotropic or Stably-Stratified Turbulence.- 3D Simulation of 2 Length Scales Turbulent Flows by Homogenization.- The Simulation of Dispersion by Convective Turbulence in the Atmosphere.- IV Coupling of Fourier Modes. Spectral Analysis of Turbulence and Related Problems.- Spectral Evolution of the Navier-Stokes Equations for Low Order Couplings of Fourier Modes.- Grid Generated Turbulence Exhibiting a Peak in the Spectrum.- Spectral Analysis of a Three-Dimensional Homogeneous Turbulence Submitted to a Solid Body Rotation.- MIS: An Alternative for the Dissipation Equation.- Transient Behavior of a StablyStratified Homogeneous Turbulent Flow.- A Stochastic Analysis of the Displacements of Fluid Elements in Inhomogeneous Turbulence Using Kraichnan's Method of Random Modes.- Fully Developed Turbulence and Complex Time Singularities.- Reynolds Number and Prandtl Number Influence on the Determination of Isotropic Velocity and Temperature Turbulent Length Scales.- On the Detection of Dissipation Events in a High Reynolds Number Turbulent Boundary Layer.- V Two-Dimensional Velocity Fields. Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence.- Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence.- Computer Simulation of Decaying Two-Dimensional Turbulence.- Energy Cascades of Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in the Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer.- An Experimental Study of the Inverse Cascade of Energy in Two-Dimensional Turbulence.- Inhomogeneous Two-Dimensional Turbulence in the Atmosphere.- Laminarization by a Strong Magnetic Field.- Transition of Magnetohydrodynamical Waves in the Solar Atmosphere.- Sensitivity of Two-Dimensional MHD Turbulence to Alfven Waves and Correlations.- The Structure of the Turbulent Temperature Field Above Heated Planes.- On the Equations Governing the Propagation of Disturbances in Turbulent Shear Flow.- VI Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows. Conditional Averaging. Pattern Recognition.- Coherent Structures.- Topology of Organised Structures in a Turbulent Plane Wake.- Models for Coherent Structures in the Wall Layer.- Orthogonal Decomposition of the Axisymmetric Jet Mixing Layer Including Azimuthal Dependence.- Analysis of Cut-and-Connect of Vortex Filaments.- A New Look at the Near-Wall Turbulence Structure.- On the Evolution of Shear-Layer Structures in Near-Wall Turbulence.- Coherent Structures in Turbulent Pipe Flow.- Behaviour of CoherentStructures in a Turbulent Boundary Layer with Wall Suction.- Identification of Sweeps with the Help of the Instantaneous Velocity Gradient dU/dy.- Turbulence Structure in a Cylinder Wake.- Coherent Structures and Their Relation to Instability Processes in a Round Free Jet.- Experimental Study of an Incompressible, Plane Mixing Layer by Temporal and Spectral Analysis.- VII Experimental Techniques: Hot-Wire Anemometry, Vorticity Meters, Electrochemical Methods, Image Analysis.- A Critical Analysis of Transverse Vorticity Measurements in a Large Plane Shear Layer.- A Study of the Vortical Structure of the Turbulent Boundary Layer.- Preliminary Vorticity Measurements by a Method Based on a MHD Principle.- Skin-Friction Measurements in Two- and Three-Dimensional Highly Turbulent Flows with Separation.- Numerical Experiments on Static Non-Linear Effects in a Single Hot-Wire Measuring Technique.- Hot Wire in Wall Proximity.- Wall Velocity Gradient Fluctuations in Turbulent Flow (Newtonian Fluid and Dilute Polymer Solutions).- Image Analysis of the Spinning Cylinder near Wake.- VIII Engineering Applications of Turbulence and the Effect of External Disturbances.- Applications Industrielles de la Turbulence, ses Progrès Récents, son Avenir.- Manipulated Turbulence Structure in Flight.- On the Manner in Which Outer Layer Disturbances Affect Turbulent Boundary Layer Skin Friction.- Response of Turbulence to Large Amplitude Oscillations in Channel Flow.- Turbulence in Oscillatory Boundary Layers.- The Structure of Turbulence Measured in a Relaxing Boundary Layer.- List of Participants.- Index of Contributors.