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13 - Epilogue: a turbulence timeline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2011

By
Peter A. Davidson ,
Yukio Kaneda  and
Keith Moffatt
Edited by
Peter A. Davidson ,
Yukio Kaneda ,
Keith Moffatt  and
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Peter A. Davidson
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Yukio Kaneda
Affiliation:
Nagoya University
Keith Moffatt
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Peter A. Davidson
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Yukio Kaneda
Affiliation:
Nagoya University, Japan
Keith Moffatt
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Affiliation:
New York University
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Summary

To supplement the foregoing chapters, we offer below a table listing some key developments in turbulence research over the period covered by this book, i.e. roughly up to mid-1970s. Later developments involving massive computations, low-dimensional dynamics, the renormalization group, turbulence control, modern instrumentation, and so on, are not included; nor do we include such closely related areas as turbulent thermal convection, combustion, wave turbulence, or the vast field of applications in geophysics, astrophysics and plasma physics. Moreover, the table is ‘internal’ to the subject, in that we make no attempt to relate the events to developments in other scientific fields or to the wider historical context. Despite these limitations, it is our hope that the table, necessarily subjective to some extent, will provide a useful point of reference for the reader. We thank the authors of this book for their comments on the table, especially Professor R. Narasimha for the inspiration he provided.

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A Voyage Through Turbulence , pp. 426 - 434
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