Theory and Modeling of Rotating Fluids
Theory and Modeling of Rotating Fluids
£147.00
GBPA systematic account of the theory and modelling of rotating fluids that highlights the remarkable advances in the area and brings researchers and postgraduate students in atmospheres, oceanography, geophysics, astrophysics and engineering to the frontiers of research. Sufficient mathematical and numerical detail is provided in a variety of geometries such that the analysis and results can be readily reproduced, and many numerical tables are included to enable readers to compare or benchmark their own calculations. Traditionally, there are two disjointed topics in rotating fluids: convective fluid motion driven by buoyancy, discussed by Chandrasekhar (1961), and inertial waves and precession-driven flow, described by Greenspan (1968). Now, for the first time in book form, a unified theory is presented for three topics - thermal convection, inertial waves and precession-driven flow - to demonstrate that these seemingly complicated, and previously disconnected, problems become mathematically simple in the framework of an asymptotic approach that incorporates the essential characteristics of rotating fluids.
- The first systematic account of the theory and modelling of rotating fluids since 1968
- Unifies three topics of rotating fluids which were traditionally treated separately: thermal convection, inertial waves, and precession-driven flow
- Provides updated theories of hydrodynamical processes in rotating fluid systems
Product details
July 2017Hardback
9780521850094
540 pages
254 × 182 × 31 mm
1.27kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Fundamentals of Rotating Fluids:
- 1. Basic concepts and equations for rotating fluids
- Part II. Inertial Waves in Uniformly Rotating Systems:
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Inertial modes in rotating narrow-gap annuli
- 4. Inertial modes in rotating cylinders
- 5. Inertial modes in rotating
- 6. Inertial modes in rotating oblate spheroids
- 7. A proof of completeness of inertial modes in rotating channels
- 8. Indications of completeness of inertial modes in rotating spheres
- Part III. Precession and Libration in Non-Uniformly Rotating Systems:
- 9. Introduction
- 10. Fluid motion in precessing narrow-gap annuli
- 11. Fluid motion in precessing circular cylinders
- 12. Fluid motion in precessing spheres
- 13. Fluid motion in longitudinally librating spheres
- 14. Fluid motion in precessing oblate spheroids
- 15. Fluid motion in latitudinally librating spheroids
- Part IV. Convection in Uniformly Rotating Systems:
- 16. Introduction
- 17. Convection in rotating narrow-gap annuli
- 18. Convection in rotating cylinders
- 19. Convection in rotating spheres or spherical shells
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- References
- Index.
