Turbulent Shear Flows 6

I Fundamentals and Closures.- Introductory Remarks.- MIS: A Way to Derive the Dissipation Equation.- The Calculation of the Flow through a Two-dimensional Faired Diffuser.- The Distortion of Weak Turbulence by High Strain.- Experimental Study of Homogeneous Turbulence in the Presence of Rotation.- Study of Lagrangian Characteristic times Using Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence.- An Eigenfunction Analysis of Turbulent Thermal Convection.- II Scalar Transport and Geophysical Flows.- Introduction: A Note on Passive Scalar Transport in Turbulence.- Transport of Passive Scalars in a Turbulent Channel Flow.- Turbulent Diffusion Behind a Heated Line Source in a Nearly Homogeneous Turbulent Shear Flow.- Scalar Mixing Layer in Grid Turbulence with Transport of Passive and Reactive Species.- Turbulent Temperature Mixing Layer: Measurement and Modelling.- Turbulent Transport and Evaporation of Droplets Generated at an Air-Water Interface.- III Aerodynamic Flows.- Remarks.- Statistical Characteristics of the Velocity Incidence in a Decelerated Boundary Layer.- Manipulation of Turbulent Boundary Layers in Zero Pressure Gradient Flows: Detailed Experiments and Modelling.- Some Similarities Between Turbulent Boundary Layers Manipulated by Thin and Thick Flat Plate Manipulators.- A Study of Turbulence Modelling in Transonic Shock-Wave Boundary-Layer Interactions.- Evolution of Axisymmetric Wakes From Attached and Separated Flows.- Time-Dependent Structure in Wing-Body Junction Flows.- IV Complex Flows.- Computational Study of the Unsteady Flow due to Wakes Passing Through a Channel.- The Effect of Lateral Divergence on the Structure of a Turbulent Channel Flow and Its Heat Transfer.- Vortex Street and Turbulent Wakes behind a Circular Cylinder Placed in a Rotating Rectangular Channel.- Shear Layers Bounding Separated Regions.- Turbulent Structure of Backward-Facing Step Flow and Coherent Vortex Shedding from Reattachment in Open-Channel Flows.- Experimental Investigation of the Flow Through an Axisymmetric Constriction.- V Numerical Simulation.- Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Plane Shear Layers.- A Numerical Study of a Stably-Stratified Mixing Layer.- Turbulence Submitted to Stable Density Stratification: Large-Eddy Simulation and Statistical Theory.- Direct Simulation of a Turbulent Oscillating Boundary Layer.- Some Inlet Plane Effects on the Numerically Simulated Spatially Developing Mixing Layer.- Index of Contributors.