Turbulent Shear Flows 9, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995 Selected Papers from the Ninth International Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Kyoto, Japan, August 16-18, 1993

The inaugural Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows was held at The Pennsylvania State University in 1977. Thereafter the locations for the biennial symposium have alternated between the USA and Europe. However, the ninth Symposium on Turbu­ lent Shear Flows was awarded to Japan in recognition of the strong support researchers of the Pacific Rim countries have given previous symposia. The University of Kyoto was the host institution and the meeting was held in the Inter­ national Conference Hall. The Local Arrangements Committee did a superb job scheduling traditional Japanese dinners and arranging visits to the many cultural treasures in the Kyoto region. The meeting attracted more than 260 offers of papers. Thirty-three sessions were scheduled to accommodate the 138 papers accepted for oral presentation. In addition a poster session was scheduled on each of the three days to accommodate a total of 42 poster presentations. From the presentations at the symposium 24 have been selected for inclusion in this volume. The authors of these papers have revised them taking into consideration comments made during their oral presentation and recommendations made by the Editors. Four subject areas are identified, namely closures and fundamentals, free flows, wall flows, and combustion and recirculating flows. Eminent authorities have prepared introductory articles fot each topic to put the individual contributions in context with each other and with related research.

I Closures and Fundamentals.- Introductory Remarks.- Two-Scale Double-Layer Model in Wall Bounded Turbulent Flow.- Modelling of Intercomponent Transfer in Reynolds Stress Closures of Homogeneous Turbulence.- Closure of the Dissipation Tensor and the Pressure—Strain Tensor Based on the Two-Point Correlation Equation.- Turbelence Statistics of Rotating Channel Flow.- Dynamic Modeling of Rotating Turbulence.- Large Eddy Simulation and Second-Moment Closure Model of Particle Fluctuating Motion in Two-Phase Turbulent Shear Flows.- II Free Turbulent Flows.- Introductory Remarks.- Numerical Simulation of Low Re-Number Turbulence in Round Jets.- Mixing in Turbulent Opposed Jet Flows.- Thermal Characteristics of Turbulent Vortices in the Wake of a Circular Cylinder.- Second-Moment Closure Predictions of Buoyant Jets in Neutral and Stratified Cross-Flows.- On Coherent Vortex Formation in Axisymmetric Compressible Shear Layers.- III Wall Flows.- Introductory Remarks.- Detailed Measurement of the Near-Wall Region of a Turbulent Pipe Flow.- Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Plane Couette-Poiseuille Flows: Effect of Mean Shear Rate on the Near-Wall Turbulence Structures.- Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow in Concentric Annuli with a Thin Inner Rod.- Direct and Large-Eddy Simulations of Transition of a Supersonic Boundary Layer.- Fine Structure of Reynolds Shear Stress in an Unsteady Turbulent Channel Flow.- Computation of Oscillating Turbulent Flows at Transitional Re-Numbers.- Structure of Heat Transfer in the Thermal Layer Growing in a Fully Developed Turbulent Flow.- Structure of the Turbulent Boundary Layer and Heat Transfer Downstream of a Vortex Generator Attached to a LEBU Plate.- IV Combustion and Recirculating Flows.- Introductory Remarks.- Transient Flame Growth in a Developing Shear Layer.- Spectral Measurement of Reactive and Conserved Scalars in a Turbulent Reactive-Scalar-Mixing Layer.- Turbulent Mixing and Non-gradient Diffusion in Baffle-stabilized Flames.- Turbulent Premixed Flame Propagation Revisited Results with a New Model.- A Description of Turbulent Premixed Flames Based on Flamelet Time Statistics.- Index of Contributors.