Turbulence: Lecture 3/14

This course provides a fundamental understanding of turbulence. It is developed by Amir A. Aliabadi from the Atmospheric Innovations Research (AIR) Laboratory.

The textbook is available from the following link:

The computer simulation laboratory instructions can be downloaded from the following link:

Lecture 3
Chapter 3: Statistical Description of Turbulent Flows

[nikannow]

Excellent series. Thanks a lot. I have a question: If we know the information regarding the perturbation, for instance the exact conditions associated with the gulf example, could we predict accurately the velocity field? Is turbulence random in a similar sense to the tossing of a coin ie. if we know the details about the forces exerted on the coin, we could precisely predict the heads or tails?

[antoine]

Hi Amir!
I am trying to perform a cross-correlation between the velocity at two different points but same time. I tried to use the xcorr function in matlab. Do you know is there is another way? I looked up on your website but there is just the database but unfortunately no solution to how perform a two point correlation for that

[mohammadtaleghani]

Thank you very much for uploading this lecture series. How can we access the main textbook for this course? (Theory and Applications of Turbulence: A Fundamental Approach for Scientists and Engineers)