Physics: Fluid mechanics

This book presents a unified approach to the fundamental ideas of multiphase flows.

Experts describe state-of-the-art micro-nano techniques for cell mechanobiology and introduce the most recent advances in the field.

This book is unique in occupying a gap between standard undergraduate texts and more advanced texts on quantum field theory.

This authoritative reference book examines and clarifies physical assumptions implicit in continuum modelling from a molecular perspective.

With a novel approach that bridges theory and practice, this book uses a uniquely structured series of chapters and appendices to present the basic theory and equations of fluid flow with just the right amount of detail and discussion.

A clear introduction to chaotic phenomena for undergraduate students in science, engineering, and mathematics.

An essential introduction to the study of estuaries, highlighting their immense spatial and temporal variability.

Application, Purification, and Recovery of Ionic Liquids provides a comprehensive overview of the usage of ionic liquids (IL).

Images of fluid flow, all in full colour, all winners of the annual DFD/APS competition.

This introductory text presents the applications of the finite element method to the analysis of conduction and convection problems.

Application of Thermo-Fluidic Measurement Techniques: An Introduction provides essential measurement techniques in heat transfer and aerodynamics.

This is a textbook for students of aircraft structures.

Address vector and matrix methods necessary in numerical methods and optimization of linear systems with this practical text.

Microchannel Heat transfer is the cooling application of high power density microchips in the CPU system, micropower systems and many other large scale thermal systems requiring effective cooling capacity.

The main objective of this book is to understand and manipulate the physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur in microscale fluidic systems.

Introduces the basic tools in spectral analysis using numerous examples from the Schrödinger operator theory and various branches of physics.

The book that makes transport in porous media accessible to students and researchers alike Porous Media Transport Phenomena covers the general theories behind flow and transport in porous media a solid permeated by a network of pores filled with fluid which encompasses rocks, biological tissues, ceramics, and much more.

This book provides a broad coverage of computational fluid dynamics that will interest engineers, astrophysicists, mathematicians, oceanographers and ecologists.

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

Completely updated and with three new chapters, this analysis of river dynamics is invaluable for advanced students, researchers and practitioners.

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

Basic Developments in Fluid Dynamics, Volume 2 focuses on the developments, approaches, methodologies, reactions, and processes involved in fluid dynamics, including sea motion, wave interactions, and motion of spheres in a viscous fluid.

Although strides have been made to quantitatively explore micro-level structural changes during food processing using advanced technologies, there is currently no comprehensive book that details these developments.

The vast majority of vibrations Encountered in the real Environment are random in nature.

Complex chemically reacting flow simulations are commonly employed to develop quantitative understanding and to optimize reaction conditions in systems such as combustion, catalysis, chemical vapor deposition, and other chemical processes.

"e;Kinetic Theory of Granular Gases"e; provides an introduction to the rapidly developing theory of dissipative gas dynamics - a theory which has mainly evolved over the last decade.

Turbulence in Porous Media introduces the reader to the characterisation of turbulent flow, heat and mass transfer in permeable media, including analytical data and a review of available experimental data.

This book is an introduction to the design of modern civil and military jet engines using engine design projects.

Filled with practical examples, Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems, Compressible Flows, and Waves presents a self-contained discussion of quasilinear hyperbolic equations and systems with applications.

Environmental Fluid Dynamics provides an introduction to the principles of environmental fluid dynamics, i.

A step-by-step guide, containing tutorial examples that serve as models for all concepts presented.

An accessible summary of a wide range of active research topics written by leaders in their field, including exciting new results.

Contained in this volume are the full texts of the invited general and sectional lectures presented at this conference concerning mechanics and its development.

In the recent decades, efficiency enhancement of refineries and chemical plants has been become a focus of research and development groups.

Addresses behaviour of materials under extreme mechanical conditions and of failure in terms of non-linear continuum mechanics and instability theory.

This book examines the phenomena of fluid flow and transfer as governed by mechanics and thermodynamics.

Numerical Modeling of Water Waves, Second Edition covers all aspects of this subject, from the basic fluid dynamics and the simplest models to the latest and most complex, including the first-ever description of techniques for modeling wave generation by explosions, projectile impacts, asteroids, and impact landslides.

Rotary Kilns-rotating industrial drying ovens-are used for a wide variety of applications including processing raw minerals and feedstocks as well as heat-treating hazardous wastes.

This book is an introduction to the design of modern civil and military jet engines using engine design projects.

This modern account brings the subject to life by emphasising the physical mechanisms involved.

A second edition of this popular introduction to numerical geodynamic modelling theory and applications for graduate students.

This book elucidates the important role of conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, mass transport in solids and fluids, and internal and external fluid flow in the behavior of materials processes.

This textbook presents essential methodology for physicists of the theory and applications of fluid mechanics within a single volume.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical theory of vorticity and incompressible flow.

Interest in studying the phenomena of convective heat and mass transfer between an ambient fluid and a body which is immersed in it stems both from fundamental considerations, such as the development of better insights into the nature of the underlying physical processes which take place, and from practical considerations, such as the fact that these idealised configurations serve as a launching pad formodelling the analogous transfer processes in more realistic physical systems.

Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting explains the design and implementation of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices based on fluid-structure interaction.

"e;Explains and summarizes the fundamental derivations, basic and advanced concepts, and equations central to the field of dynamics.

Describes seabed fluid flow processes for research scientists and professionals in the marine environment.