Preface/Préface. I. Experiments and Experimental Techniques/Expériences et techniques expérimentales. II. Transition and Dynamical Systems/Transition et systèmes dynamiques. III. Numerical Simulation/Simulation numérique. IV. High Reynolds Numbers and Intermittency/Grands nombres de Reynolds et intermittence. V. Industrial Applications and Modelling/Applications industrielles et modélisation. VI. Vortex Dynamics/Dynamique du tourbillon. VII. Astro/Geophysical Flow and Convection/Écoulements astro/géophysiques et convection. VIII. Transport of Passive Scalars/Transport de scalaires passifs. Author Index/Indexe des auteurs.

Advances in Turbulence VII contains an overview of the state of turbulence research with some bias towards work done in Europe. It represents an almost complete collection of the invited and contributed papers delivered at the Seventh European Turbulence Conference, sponsored by EUROMECH and ERCOFTAC and organized by the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur. New high-Reynolds number experiments combined with new techniques of imaging, non-intrusive probing, processing and simulation provide high-quality data which put significant constraints on possible theories. For the first time, it has been shown, for a class of passive scalar problems, why dimensional analysis sometimes gives the wrong answers and how anomalous intermittency corrections can be calculated from first principles. The volume is thus geared towards specialists in the area of flow turbulence who could not attend the conference as well as anybody interested in this rapidly moving field.