Hydrodynamic instabilities
"The instability of fluids is a key topic in classical fluid mechanics because it has huge repercussions for applied disciplines such as chemical engineering, hydraulics, aeronautics and meteorology. This modern introduction is written for any student, researcher or practitioner working in the area, for whom an understanding of hydrodynamic instabilities is essential. Based on a decade's experience of teaching postgraduate students in fluid dynamics, this book brings the subject to life by emph…
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- Full title :Hydrodynamic instabilities / François Charru ; translated by Patricia de Forcrand-Millard.
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"The instability of fluids is a key topic in classical fluid mechanics because it has huge repercussions for applied disciplines such as chemical engineering, hydraulics, aeronautics and meteorology. This modern introduction is written for any student, researcher or practitioner working in the area, for whom an understanding of hydrodynamic instabilities is essential. Based on a decade's experience of teaching postgraduate students in fluid dynamics, this book brings the subject to life by emphasizing the physical mechanisms involved. The theory of dynamics provides the basic structure of the exposition and, wherever possible, Charru discusses the phenomena in terms of characteristic scales and dimensional analysis. Asymptotic methods also play an important role. The book includes numerous experimental studies, with references to videos and multimedia material, as well as over 150 exercises which introduce the reader to new problems."
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 391 p. : : ill. ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521769264, 9780521769266, 0521143519, 9780521143516
- oclc:ocn805381088
- LC Classification:TA357.5.U57
- Dewey Decimal:620.1064
Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Instabilities of fluids at rest; 3. Stability of open flows: basic ideas; 4. Inviscid instability of parallel flows; 5. Viscous instability of parallel flows; 6. Instabilities at low Reynolds number; 7. Avalanches, ripples, and dunes; 8. Nonlinear dynamics of systems with few degrees of freedom; 9. Nonlinear dispersive waves; 10. Nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems; 11. Dynamical systems and bifurcations; Appendix. The Saint-Venant equations; Bibliography; Index.
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