Scaling
In this work, the author describes and teaches the art of discovering scaling laws, starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity.
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- Full title :Scaling / Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt.
Summary
In this work, the author describes and teaches the art of discovering scaling laws, starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity.
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 172 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521826578, 9780521826570, 0521533945, 9780521533942
- oclc:ocm51316389
- LC Classification:QC174.85.S34
- Dewey Decimal:530.15/95
Table of Contents
1. Dimensional analysis and physical similarity -- 2. Self-similarity and intermediate asymptotics -- 3. Scaling laws and self-similar solutions that cannot be obtained by dimensional analysis -- 4. Complete and incomplete similarity: Self-similar solutions of the first and second kind -- 5. Scaling and transformation groups: Renormalization group -- 6. Self-similar phenomena and travelling waves -- 7. Scaling laws and fractals -- 8. Scaling laws for turbulent wall-bounded shear flows at very large Reynolds numbers.
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