Topics in Fluid Mechanics
The book offers a novel but unified treatment of an established subject. It presents each topic as part of a wider class of problems so that a unity of concepts is emphasized over a unity of material. The authors aim for simplicity in presentation, stressing physical understanding over mathematical development. Specialized subjects such as chaotic advection, chaos and the onset of turbulence--problems that are being tackled in research and industry now--are given particular attention.
- Unified treatment of fluid mechanics
- Authors have aimed for simplicity in presentation
Product details
March 1993Paperback
9780521422727
340 pages
229 × 152 × 19 mm
0.5kg
218 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- 1. Basic concepts
- 2. Towards a constitutive law for fluid materials
- 3. Vorticity laws
- 4. Fundamental concepts of turbulence
- 5. Dynamical systems and chaotic advection
- 6. Chaos and the onset of turbulence
- 7. Boundary layer theory
- 8. Wave propagation
- 9. Fundamentals of classical thermodynamics
- Appendices
- Index.