2010/11/10 by Gregory L. Eyink, Gregory Eyink, Eyink, Gregory +3 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD) #Combustion and flame dynamics #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations #nlin.CD #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1011.2383
28 pages, 1 figure, preliminary version of a Chapter to appear in "A Journey through Turbulence in Twelve Chapters" (tentative title), Cambridge University Press 2011 (in copyright)
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Robert Harry Kraichnan (1928-2008) was one of the leaders in the theory of turbulence for a span of about forty years (mid-fifties to mid-nineties). Among his many contributions, he is perhaps best known for his work on the inverse energy cascade (i.e. from small to large scales) for forced two-dimensional turbulence. This is a review of Kraichnan's main scientific contributions.