Physics: Fluid mechanics

Now reissued by Cambridge University Press, this sixth edition covers fundamental aerodynamics using examples, applications and exercises.

New-Technology Flowmeters describes the origin, principle of operation, development, advantages and disadvantages, applications, and frontiers of research for new-technology flowmeters, which include Coriolis, magnetic, ultrasonic, vortex, and thermal.

Since the second edition of Liquid-Vapor Phase-Change Phenomena was written, research has substantially enhanced the understanding of the effects of nanostructured surfaces, effects of microchannel and nanochannel geometries, and effects of extreme wetting on liquid-vapor phase-change processes.

For anyone interested in the aerodynamics, structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats, insects and air vehicles (MAVs).

Optimal Trajectories in Atmospheric Flight deals with the optimization of trajectories in atmospheric flight.

This book provides detailed information related to nanofluids, synthesis and preparation, morphologies of nanoparticles, selection of base fluids and thermophysical properties of nanofluids.

Similarity Solutions for the Boundary Layer Flow and Heat Transfer of Viscous Fluids, Nanofluids, Porous Media, and Micropolar Fluids presents new similarity solutions for fluid mechanics problems, including heat transfer of viscous fluids, boundary layer flow, flow in porous media, and nanofluids due to continuous moving surfaces.

Mathematical Techniques for Wave Interaction with Flexible Structures is a thoughtful compilation of the various mathematical techniques used to deal with wave structure interaction problems.

Turbomachinery: Concepts, Applications, and Design is an introductory turbomachinery textbook aimed at seniors and first year graduate students, giving balanced treatment of both the concepts and design aspects of turbomachinery, based on sound analysis and a strong theoretical foundation.

Structural Analysis Systems: Software-Hardware Capability-Compatibility-Applications, Volume 2 is a practical guidebook on structural analysis systems and their applications.

Spacecraft Attitude Control: A Linear Matrix Inequality Approach solves problemsfor spacecraft attitude control systems using convex optimization and, specifi cally,through a linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach.

Advanced Applications in Heat Exchanger Technologies presents the most recent developments in enhancing heat exchanger performance, reliability, and resilience, including the implementation of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing.

A fundamental reference for graduate students and researchers in fluid mechanics.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical theory of compressible flow, describing both inviscid and viscous compressible flow, which are governed by the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations respectively.

The objective of this book is to illustrate in specific detail how cardiovascular mechanics stands as a common pillar supporting such different clinical successes as drugs for high blood pressure, prosthetic heart valves and coronary artery bypass grafting, among others.

A complete introduction to the modelling and mathematical analysis of contact processes with deformable solids.

This volume provides a good understanding of the binary fluid system, highlighting new dimensions of the existing Kalina cycle system, a thermodynamic process for converting thermal energy into usable mechanical power.

Applications of Nanofluid for Heat Transfer Enhancement explores recent progress in computational fluid dynamic and nonlinear science and its applications to nanofluid flow and heat transfer.

The book begins with an overview of the phase diagrams of fluid mixtures (fluid = liquid, gas, or supercritical state), which can show an astonishing variety when elevated pressures are taken into account; phenomena like retrograde condensation (single and double) and azeotropy (normal and double) are discussed.

Provides a comprehensive yet accessible treatment of computer-based weather and climate prediction, for graduate students, researchers and professionals.

"e;Presents the fundamentals of momentum, heat, and mass transfer from both a microscopic and a macroscopic perspective.

The excitement and the glitz of mechatronics has shifted the engineering community's attention away from fluid power systems in recent years.

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.

Turbulence is the most fundamental and, simultaneously, the most complex form of fluid flow.

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.

Multidisciplinary Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Lab-on-a-Chip: Principles and Applications provides chemists, biophysicists, engineers, life scientists, biotechnologists, and pharmaceutical scientists with the principles behind the design, manufacture, and testing of life sciences microfluidic systems.

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.

Ferrofluids are smart materials possessing high controllability over its sensing and actuations behaviour which makes them suitable for contemporary technology.

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.

Hermeticity of Electronic Packages is a book about the integrity of sealed packages to resist foreign gases and liquids penetrating the seal or an opening (crack) in the packageuespecially critical to the reliability and longevity of electronics.

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.

Mathematical problems concerning time evolution of solutions related to nonlinear systems modelling dynamics of continuous media are of great interest both in wave propagation and in stability problems.

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.