Albert Alan Townsend

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Engineering

#3031

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#4047

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Mechanical Engineering

#188

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#219

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Applied Physics

#483

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#501

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Albert Alan Townsend's Degrees

PhD Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
Masters Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
Bachelors Mechanical Engineering Stanford University

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Albert Alan Townsend's Published Works

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The Structure of Turbulent Shear Flow (1975) (2482)
Equilibrium layers and wall turbulence (1961) (640)
Small-scale variation of convected quantities like temperature in turbulent fluid Part 2. The case of large conductivity (1959) (517)
The nature of turbulent motion at large wave-numbers (1949) (477)
Decay of isotropic turbulence in the initial period (1948) (284)
Decay of turbulence in the final period (1948) (277)
On the fine-scale structure of turbulence (1951) (224)
Temperature fluctuations over a heated horizontal surface (1959) (191)
Entrainment and the structure of turbulent flow (1970) (185)
Similarity and self-preservation in isotropic turbulence (1951) (159)
The mechanism of entrainment in free turbulent flows (1966) (158)
Turbulent Couette flow between concentric cylinders at large Taylor numbers (1982) (154)
Change of terrain roughness and the wind profile (1964) (144)
The effects of radiative transfer on turbulent flow of a stratified fluid (1958) (135)
Flow in a deep turbulent boundary layer over a surface distorted by water waves (1972) (130)
Internal waves produced by a convective layer (1966) (126)
Natural convection in water over an ice surface (1964) (125)
THE UNIFORM DISTORTION OF HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE (1954) (106)
The structure of the turbulent boundary layer (1951) (101)
The measurement of double and triple correlation derivatives in isotropic turbulence (1947) (96)
Turbulent flow in a stably stratified atmosphere (1958) (92)
Flow patterns of large eddies in a wake and in a boundary layer (1979) (88)
The diffusion of heat spots in isotropic turbulence (1951) (88)
Measurements in the turbulent wake of a cylinder (1947) (80)
The diffusion behind a line source in homogeneous turbulence (1954) (79)
Self-preserving flow inside a turbulent boundary layer (1965) (76)
Turbulent convection over a heated horizontal surface (1957) (76)
The response of a turbulent boundary layer to abrupt changes in surface conditions (1965) (75)
The response of sheared turbulence to additional distortion (1980) (75)
The flow in a turbulent boundary layer after a change in surface roughness (1966) (74)
Momentum and energy diffusion in the turbulent wake of a cylinder (1949) (62)
Excitation of internal waves by a turbulent boundary layer (1965) (60)
Excitation of internal waves in a stably-stratified atmosphere with considerable wind-shear (1968) (56)
The development of turbulent boundary layers with negligible wall stress (1960) (50)
The behaviour of a turbulent boundary layer near separation (1962) (50)
Natural convection in the earth's boundary layer (1962) (46)
The properties of equilibrium boundary layers (1956) (46)
Experimental evidence for the theory of local isotropy (1948) (24)
THE PASSAGE OF TURBULENCE THROUGH WIRE GAUZES (1951) (22)
The development of a turbulent wake in a distorting duct (1981) (20)
Axisymmetric Couette flow at large Taylor numbers (1984) (20)
Mixed convection over a heated horizontal plane (1972) (19)
β-ray spectra of light elements (1941) (15)
The interpretation of stellar shadow‐bands as a consequence of turbulent mixing (1965) (15)
LXXXI. The eddy viscosity in turbulent shear flow (1950) (11)
The turbulent boundary layer (1958) (10)
Self-preserving development within turbulent boundary layers in strong adverse pressure gradients (1965) (9)
Wind and the formation of inversions (1967) (8)
The β-ray spectrum of Ra E (1939) (7)
A continuum theory of the isothermal flow of liquid helium II (1961) (5)
Free convection in a wind (1962) (5)
Early days of turbulence research in Cambridge (1990) (5)
The analysis of temperature fluctuations by pulse-counting techniques (1959) (4)
The production of gamma-rays by neutrons (1938) (3)
Organised Eddies in Turbulent Shear Flows (1993) (2)
On the hydrodynamic equations for flow of liquid helium II with mutual friction (1963) (2)
Intensity of γ radiation produced by slow neutrons (1938) (1)
Turbulent flow and the effects of curvature (1983) (1)
REVIEWS Turbulent Flows and Heat Transfer. (Volume v of High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion.) Edited by C. C. LIN. Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press, 1959. 549 pp. £5.5s. (1961) (1)
Turbulent Boundary Layers in Compressible Gases. BY S. S. KUTATELADZE and A. I. LEONT'EV. (Translated by D. B. Spalding.) London: Edward Arnold. 1964. 170 pp. 60s. (1966) (1)
Entrainment in Free Turbulent Flows (1989) (1)
Discussion: “Accelerations and Mean Trajectories in Turbulent Channel Flow” (Irmay, S., 1960, ASME J. Basic Eng., 82, pp. 961–968) (1960) (0)
Turbulence. J. O. Hinze. McGraw-Hill, London, 1959. 586 pp. Illustrated. £5 16s. 6d. (1960) (0)
Atmospheric Diffusion. By F. PASQUILL. Van Nostrand Go., 1961. 297pp. 60s. (1963) (0)
ALUMINUM ALLOY REACTOR TANKS (1962) (0)
Change of terrain roughness and the wind profile (1964) (0)
Liquid Helium. By K. R. ATKINS. Cambridge University Press, 1959. 312pp. 60s. (1960) (0)
A comment on F. N. Frenkiel’s note “On third-order correlation and vorticity in isotropic turbulence.” (1949) (0)
The production of pressure vessels in aluminium and aluminium alloys (1961) (0)
The Scientific Papers of G. I. Taylor. Vol. II: Meteorology, Oceanography and Turbulent Flow. Edited by G. K. BATCHELOR. Cambridge University Press, 1960. 515 pp. 75s. or $14.50. (1960) (0)

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