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GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTS: Definition of turbulence and introductory concepts -- Equations of motion for turbulent flow; reynolds stresses -- Equation for the conservation of a transferable scalar -- Double correlations between turbulence-velocity components -- Change in double velocity correlations with time -- Features of the double longitudinal and lateral correlations in a homogeneous turbulence -- Integral scale of turbulence -- Other eulerian correlations -- Turbulent diffusion of fluid particles -- Recapitulation of correlations -- Empirical formulas for double-correlation curves -- Taylor's one-dimensional energy spectrum -- Energy relations in turbulent flows -- PRINCIPLES OF METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN THE MEASUREMENT OF TURBULENT FLOWS: The hot-wire anemometer -- Constant-temperature method -- Constant-current method -- Measurement of turbulence characteristics with the hot-wire anemometer -- Measurement of temperature and concentration -- Limitations of the hot-wire anemometer -- Other turbulence measuring probes -- Methods based upon flow visualization -- Measurement of mean values of static pressure and velocity -- ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE: Correlation tensors -- Differential equation for the dynamic behavior of an isotropic turbulence -- The three-dimensional energy spectrum -- The dynamic equation for the energy spectrum -- The decay of an isotropic turbulence -- Extension to an isotropic-turbulent scalar field -- Pressure fluctuations in isotropic turbulence -- Some remarks on the effect of compressibility -- HOMOGENEOUS, SHEAR-FLOW TURBULENCE: The dynamic equation for the energy spectrum -- TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN TURBULENT FLOWS: Mixing-length and phenomenological theories -- Analogies in turbulent transport -- Transport by turbulent diffusion -- Diffusion from a fixed source in a uniform flow -- Diffusion from a fixed source in a turbulent shear flow -- Diffusion of discrete particles in a homogeneous turbulence -- Effect of compressibility -- FREE TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS: Similarity considerations -- Approximations applied to the equations of motion -- Velocity distribution behind a cylinder according to the classical theories -- The transport of a scalar quantity in the wake flow of a cylinder -- Measurements of mean-velocity and mean-temperature -- Measurements of turbulence quantities in the wake flow of a cylinder -- Velocity distribution in a round free jet according to the classical theories -- The transport of a scalar quantity in a round free jet -- Measurements of mean-velocity and mean-temperature distribution in a round free jet -- Measurements of turbulence quantities in a round free jet -- The structure of free turbulent shear flow and Transport -- "WALL" TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS: Approximations to the equations of motion, and their -- The laminar boundary layer and transition -- Further considerations on transition to turbulence of a laminar boundary layer -- Turbulent boundary layer along a flat plate -- Measurements on mean-velocity distribution -- Measurements on turbulence quantities in a boundary layer -- More detailed information on the structure of the turbulent boundary layer The structure of the outer region -- Nonclassical theories on the distribution of mean properties in a plane boundary layer -- Transition to turbulence of a laminar poiseuille flow -- Turbulent flow through a straight circular pipe meanvelocity distribution -- Measurements of turbulence quantities in pipe flow -- Transport ofa scalar quantity in wall turbulence.