The Scientific Papers of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor Meteorology, Oceanography and Turnulent Flow

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975) was a physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest physical scientists of the twentieth century. Across these four volumes, published between the years 1958 and 1971, Batchelor has collected together almost 200 of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor's papers. The papers of the first three volumes are grouped approximately by subject, with Volume IV collating a number of miscellaneous papers on the mechanics of fluids. Together, these volumes allow a thorough exploration of the breadth and diversity of Sir Taylor's interests within the field of fluid dynamics. At the end of Volume IV, Batchelor provides the reader with both a chronological list of the papers presented across all four volumes, and a list of Sir Geoffrey Taylor's other published articles, completing this truly invaluable research and reference work.

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.

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886-1975) was a physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. Across these four volumes, published between the years 1958 and 1971, Batchelor has collected together almost 200 of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor's papers. The second volume examines meteorology, oceanography and turbulent flow.