Preface to the Princeton Landmarks in Biology Edition vii Preface xi Symbols Used xiii 1. The Importance of Islands 3 2. Area and Number of Speicies 8 3. Further Explanations of the Area-Diversity Pattern 19 4. The Strategy of Colonization 68 5. Invasibility and the Variable Niche 94 6. Stepping Stones and Biotic Exchange 123 7. Evolutionary Changes Following Colonization 145 8. Prospect 181 Glossary 185 References 193 Index 201

The Theory of Island Biogeography

Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism.

▪ Abstract We review the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows. We stress that DNS is a research tool, and not a brute-force solution to the Navier-Stokes equations for engineering problems. The wide range of scales in turbulent flows requires that care be taken in their numerical solution. We discuss related numerical issues such as boundary conditions and spatial and temporal discretization. Significant insight into turbulence physics has been gained from DNS of certain idealized flows that cannot be easily attained in the laboratory. We discuss some examples. Further, we illustrate the complementary nature of experiments and computations in turbulence research. Examples are provided where DNS data has been used to evaluate measurement accuracy. Finally, we consider how DNS has impacted turbulence modeling and provided further insight into the structure of turbulent boundary layers.

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DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION: A Tool in Turbulence Research

Turbulent combustion modeling

Equilibrium models of isolation by distance predict an increase in genetic differentiation with geographic distance. Here we find a linear relationship between genetic and geographic distance in a worldwide sample of human populations, with major deviations from the fitted line explicable by admixture or extreme isolation. A close relationship is shown to exist between the correlation of geographic distance and genetic differentiation (as measured by FST) and the geographic pattern of heterozygosity across populations. Considering a worldwide set of geographic locations as possible sources of the human expansion, we find that heterozygosities in the globally distributed populations of the data set are best explained by an expansion originating in Africa and that no geographic origin outside of Africa accounts as well for the observed patterns of genetic diversity. Although the relationship between FST and geographic distance has been interpreted in the past as the result of an equilibrium model of drift and dispersal, simulation shows that the geographic pattern of heterozygosities in this data set is consistent with a model of a serial founder effect starting at a single origin. Given this serial-founder scenario, the relationship between genetic and geographic distance allows us to derive bounds for the effects of drift and natural selection on human genetic variation.

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Support from the relationship of genetic and geographic distance in human populations for a serial founder effect originating in Africa

An examination of forcing in direct numerical simulations of turbulence

The evolution of scalar fields, of different initial integral length scales, in statistically stationary, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence is studied. The initial scalar fields conform, approximately, to ‘‘double‐delta function’’ probability density functions (pdf ’s). The initial scalar‐to‐velocity integral length‐scale ratio is found to influence the rate of the subsequent evolution of the scalar fields, in accord with experimental observations of Warhaft and Lumley [J. Fluid Mech. 88, 659 (1978)]. On the other hand, the pdf of the scalar is found to evolve in a similar fashion for all the scalar fields studied; and, as expected, it tends to a Gaussian. The pdf of the logarithm of the scalar‐dissipation rate reaches an approximately Gaussian self‐similar state. The scalar‐dissipation spectrum function also becomes self‐similar. The evolution of the conditional scalar‐dissipation rate is also studied. The consequences of these results for closure models for the scalar pdf equation are discussed.

Direct numerical simulations of the turbulent mixing of a passive scalar

The flow structure and heat transfer characteristics of an isolated square cylinder in cross flow are investigated numerically for both steady and unsteady periodic laminar flow in the two-dimensional regime, for Reynolds numbers of 1 to 160 and a Prandtl number of 0.7. The effect of vortex shedding on the isotherm patterns and heat transfer from the cylinder is discussed. Heat transfer correlations between Nusselt number and Reynolds number are presented for uniform heat flux and constant cylinder temperature boundary conditions.

Heat and fluid flow across a square cylinder in the two-dimensional laminar flow regime

Forced convection heat transfer from an unconfined circular cylinder in the steady cross-flow regime has been studied using a finite volume method (FVM) implemented on a Cartesian grid system in the range as 10 ≤ Re ≤ 45 and 0.7 ≤ Pr ≤ 400. The numerical results are used to develop simple correlations for Nusselt number as a function of the pertinent dimensionless variables. In addition to average Nusselt number, the effects of Re, Pr and thermal boundary conditions on the temperature field near the cylinder and on the local Nusselt number distributions have also been presented to provide further physical insights into the nature of the flow. The rate of heat transfer increases with an increase in the Reynolds and/or Prandtl numbers. The uniform heat flux condition always shows higher value of heat transfer coefficient than the constant wall temperature at the surface of the cylinder for the same Reynolds and Prandtl numbers. The maximum difference between the two values is around 15–20%.

Vinayak Eswaran

Papers

An examination of forcing in direct numerical simulations of turbulence

Direct numerical simulations of the turbulent mixing of a passive scalar

Heat and fluid flow across a square cylinder in the two-dimensional laminar flow regime

A numerical study of the steady forced convection heat transfer from an unconfined circular cylinder

Steady forced convection heat transfer from a heated circular cylinder to power-law fluids