Physics: Fluid mechanics

Flight Mechanics Modeling and Analysis comprehensively covers flight mechanics and flight dynamics using a systems approach.

This updated edition provides a modern scientific approach to evaluating ship resistance and propulsion for a range of ship types.

The first book to present a full-color visual panorama of combustion images along with explanatory and tutorial overviews.

This volume presents recent advances in computational fluid dynamics.

Heat transfer enhancement has seen rapid development and widespread use in both conventional and emerging technologies.

This best-selling textbook presents the concepts of continuum mechanics, and the second edition includes additional explanations, examples and exercises.

Developing clean energy and utilizing waste energy has become increasingly vital.

Graduate-level book on the analysis of molecular dynamics as applied to equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems.

The theme of the present volume of Advances in Chemical Engineering is Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and aims to show the state-of-the-art of the application of CFD in chemical engineering.

The Mechanics of Inhaled Pharmaceutical Aerosols: An Introduction, Second Edition provides a concise, but thorough exposition of fundamental concepts in the field of pharmaceutical aerosols.

Motivated by a plethora of phenomena from nature, this textbook introduces into the physics of wetting of surfaces.

Master the theory, applications and control mechanisms of flow control techniques.

Experimental Hydrodynamics for Flow around Bodies explains complex novel experimental methodologies to solve a wide range of important flow problems in industry and research.

Traditionally spectral methods in fluid dynamics were used in direct and large eddy simulations of turbulent flow in simply connected computational domains.

The manipulation of fluids in channels with dimensions in the range from tens to hundreds of micrometers microfluidics has recently emerged as a new field of science and technology.

Both broad and deep in coverage, Rubenstein shows that fluid mechanics principles can be applied not only to blood circulation, but also to air flow through the lungs, joint lubrication, intraocular fluid movement and renal transport.

Covered from the vantage point of a user of a commercial flow package, Essentials of Computational Fluid Dynamics provides the information needed to competently operate a commercial flow solver.

Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics is widely appreciated as an easily accessible, rounded introduction to the first principles of the aerodynamics of helicopter flight.

Higher Order Dynamic Mode Decomposition and Its Applications provides detailed background theory, as well as several fully explained applications from a range of industrial contexts to help readers understand and use this innovative algorithm.

The text covers a wide range of topics such as mathematical modeling of crop pest control management, water resources management, impact of anthropogenic activities on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, impact of climate changes on melting of glaciers and polar bear populations, dynamics of slow-fast predator-prey system and spread and control of HIV epidemic.

This book gives advanced undergraduate and graduate students a clear understanding of the development of continuum mechanics, with special emphasis on thermodymamics.

The Book The behaviour of helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft is so complex that understanding the physical mechanisms at work in trim, stability and response, and thus the prediction of Flying Qualities, requires a framework of analytical and numerical modelling and simulation.

In your day-to-day planning, design, operation, and optimization of pipelines, wading through complex formulas and theories is not the way to get the job done.

Fluid Mechanics is the study of liquid or gas behavior in motion or at rest.

This book summarizes the modeling of the transport, evolution and fate of particles in the coastal ocean for advanced students and researchers.

This book, first published in 2006, examines the theory and practice of weather and climate predictability for graduate students and researchers.

Interaction of Disturbances in Shear Flows aims to provide a comprehensive, in-depth overview of the current state of knowledge on the subject.

This textbook presents a modern account of turbulence, which is ubiquitous in both cosmical and natural environments.

This book explains the physical principles and theoretical basis of acoustics of nanofluids with mathematical rigor, focusing on concepts and points of view that have proven effective in applications such as heat transfer, petroleum science and technology, wastewater treatment, food processing, and hydrogen production.

The definitive textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying a biologically-grounded course in fluid mechanics.

The proceedings from Parallel CFD 2006 covers all aspects of parallel computings and its applications.

Despite of many years of studies, predicting fluid flow, heat, and chemical transport in fractured-porous media remains a challenge for scientists and engineers worldwide.

The topic of this book is Cold Spray technology.

Treating multiphase systems with emphasis on the aspect of fluid dynamics and as an introduction to research in multiphase flow, this book covers definitive concepts, methods, and theories which have been validated by experimental results.

Understand the absorption of energy from ocean waves by means of oscillating systems with this useful new edition.

Textbook providing a self-contained course on atmospheric dynamics for advanced students and researchers.

Introducing multibody dynamics with an emphasis on flexible body dynamics, this edition features an additional chapter with explanations for the fundamental issues addressed.

This book offers detailed treatment of the fundamental concepts of tribology and its related applications.

Explains the special techniques required to model the radiation and diffraction of elastic and surface waves.

Introduction to Thermal and Fluid Engineering combines coverage of basic thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer for a one- or two-term course for a variety of engineering majors.

Modelling Approaches and Computational Methods for Particle-laden Turbulent Flows introduces the principal phenomena observed in applications where turbulence in particle-laden flow is encountered while also analyzing the main methods for analyzing numerically.

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the use of ultrasonic techniques for the characterization of fluids.

With major implications for applied physics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences, the rapidly growing area of environmental fluid dynamics focuses on the interactions of human activities, environment, and fluid motion.

As the most important parts of rotating machinery, rotors are also the most prone to mechanical vibrations, which may lead to machine failure.

This book is essentially made up of the lecture notes delivered by seven authors at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences in Udine in June 1979.

This textbook covers fundamental and advanced concepts of computational fluid dynamics, a powerful and essential tool for fluid flow analysis.

This book introduces the reader to the field of compressible turbulence and compressible turbulent flows across a broad speed range through a unique complimentary treatment of both the theoretical foundations and the measurement and analysis tools currently used.

The first comprehensive treatment of the theory for small and large amplitude internal gravity waves, with illustrative examples and exercises.

One of the few textbooks in the field, this volume deals with several aspects of the dynamics of colloids.