The Scientific Papers of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (Paperback)

1. Eddy motion in the atmosphere; 2. Skin friction of the wind on the earth's surface; 3. Conditions at the surface of a hot body exposed to the wind; 4. On the dissipation of sound in the atmosphere; 5. Variation of wind velocity close to the ground with C. J. P. Cave; 6. The formation of fog and mist; 7. Observations and speculations on the nature of turbulent motion; 8. Phenomena connected with turbulence in the lower atmosphere; 9. On the dissipation of eddies; 10. Skin friction on a flat surface; 11. Tidal friction in the Irish Sea; 12. Tidal friction and the secular acceleration of the moon; 13. Tidal oscillations in gulfs and rectangular basins; 14. Diffusion by continuous movements; 15. Tides in the Bristol Channel; 16. The decay of eddies in a fluid; 17. An experiment on the stability of superposed streams of fluid; 18. The criterion for turbulence in curved pipes; 19. Waves and tides in the atmosphere; 20. The application of Osborne Reynolds's theory of heat transfer to flow through a pipe; 21. Effect of variation in density on the stability of superposed streams of fluid; 22. Internal waves and turbulence in a fluid of variable density; 23. Note on the distribution of turbulent velocities in a fluid near a solid wall; 24. The transport of vorticity and heat through fluids in turbulent motion; 25. The resonance theory of semidiurnal atmospheric oscillations; 26. Turbulence in a contracting stream; 27. Statistical theory of turbulence, I; 28. Statistical theory of turbulence, II; 29. Statistical theory of turbulence, III: distribution of dissipation of energy in a pipe over its cross-section; 30. Statistical theory of turbulence, IV: diffusion in a turbulent air stream; 31. Distribution of velocity and temperature between concentric rotating cylinders; 32. The mean value of the fluctuations in pressure and pressure gradient in a turbulent fluid; 33. Statistical theory of turbulence, V: effect of turbulence on boundary layer. Theoretical discussion of relationship between scale of turbulence and critical resistance of spheres; 34. The oscillations of the atmosphere; 35. Correlation measurements in a turbulent flow through a pipe; 36. Fluid friction between rotating cylinders, I: torque measurements; 37. Fluid friction between rotating cylinders, II: Distribution of velocity between concentric cylinders when outer one is rotating and inner one is at rest; 38. Mechanism of the production of small eddies from large ones with A. E. Green; 39. Flow in pipes and between parallel planes; 40. The statistical theory of isotropic turbulence; 41. Production and dissipation of vorticity in a turbulent fluid; 42. The spectrum of turbulence; 43. The dispersion of matter in turbulent flow through a pipe; 44. Turbulent gravitational convection from maintained and instantaneous sources with B. R. Morton and J. S. Turner; 45. Flow induced by jets.