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"The book will review recent progress in the study of the turbulent flows that sculpt the Earth's surface, focusing in particular on the organized structures that have been identified in recent years within turbulent flows"--
List of contents
List of Contributors, vii
Preface, xi
About the Companion Website, xiii
1 What is a Coherent Flow Structure in Geophysical Flow? 1
Jeremy G. Venditti, Richard J. Hardy, Michael Church, & James L. Best
2 Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers 17
Ronald J. Adrian
3 Structural Attributes of Turbulent Flow over a Complex Topography 25
Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez, Julio M. Barros, & Kenneth T. Christensen
4 Coherent Flow Structures in the Pore Spaces of Permeable Beds underlying a Unidirectional Turbulent Boundary Layer: A Review and some New Experimental Results 43
Gianluca Blois, James L. Best, Kenneth T. Christensen, Richard J. Hardy, & Gregory H. Sambrook Smith
5 Instabilities in Stratified Shear Flow 63
Gregory A. Lawrence, Edmund W. Tedford, & Jeffrey R. Carpenter
6 Scalar Turbulence within the Canopy Sublayer 73
Gabriel G. Katul, Daniela Cava, Mario Siqueira, & Davide Poggi
7 On the Structure of Wall Turbulence in the Thermally Neutral Atmospheric Surface Layer 97
Michele Guala, Jeff LeHew, Meredith Metzger, & Beverley J. McKeon
8 Critical Reflections on the Coherent Flow Structures Paradigm in Aeolian Geomorphology 111
Bernard O. Bauer, Ian J. Walker, Andreas C.W. Baas, Derek W.T. Jackson, Cheryl McKenna Neuman, Giles F.S. Wiggs, & Patrick A. Hesp
9 Coherent Flow Structures in Vegetated Channels 135
Heidi Nepf, Jeffrey Rominger, & Lijun Zong
10 Coherent Eddy Structures over Plant Canopies 149
Roger H. Shaw, Edward G. Patton, & John J. Finnigan
11 SPIV Analysis of Coherent Structures in a Vegetation Canopy Model Flow 161
Laurent Perret & Tony Ruiz
About the author
Jeremy G. Venditti, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
James L. Best, Threet Professor, Departments of Geology and Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.
Michael Church, Professor emeritus, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Richard J. Hardy, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.
Summary
* Expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulent flows with a focus on recently identified organized structures * Provides a global authoritative review of recent research in the field * Covers both fundamental and applied topics * Figures available for instructor use on companion website .
