'It is certainly an excellent book for those wanting to take a fresh look at some aspects of the subject. Teachers
of turbulence will find it useful, for at least part of the material of their course. The book is undoubtedly worth
reading by everybody concerned with some aspect of turbulence research.'
--A. Tsinober, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Submitted by Publisher, January, 2003
Summary
Written five centuries after the first studies of Leonardo da Vinci and half a century after A.N. Kolmogorov's
first attempt to predict the properties of flow, this textbook presents a modern account of turbulence, one of
the greatest challenges in physics.'Fully developed turbulence is ubiquitous in both cosmic and natural environments,
in engineering applications and in everyday life. Elementary presentations of dynamical systems ideas, probabilistic
methods (including the theory of large deviations) and fractal geometry make this a self-contained textbook. This
is the first book on turbulence to use modern ideas from chaos and symmetry breaking. The book will appeal to first-year
graduate students in mathematics, physics, astrophysics, geosciences and engineering, as well as professional scientists
and engineers.
