Physics: Fluid mechanics

While other methods of drag reduction are well-known in marine R&D and ship design environments worldwide, compliant coating drag reduction remains less well-known and poorly understood.

The first thorough synthesis of methods for solving time-domain scattering problems, covering both theoretical and computational aspects.

Wall turbulence is encountered in many technological applications as well as in the atmosphere, and a detailed understanding leading to its management would have considerable beneficial consequences in many areas.

Aerodynamic design of aircraft presented with applications, using CFD software and featuring tutorials, exercises, and mini-projects.

Building from principles to cutting-edge research, this introduction to rigid body dynamics includes over 100 problems with solutions.

ParCFD 2001, the thirteenth international conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics took place in Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands, from May 21-23, 2001.

Describes physical and statistical aspects of waves for graduates, researchers and engineers.

Design of Hydrodynamic Machines provides a broad, yet concise, theoretical background on the relationship between fluid dynamics and geometry.

The book is an introduction to theory of sound generation by fluid flow.

An exciting textbook, suitable for intermediate to advanced courses in materials science.

This self-explanatory guide introduces the basic fundamentals of the Finite Element Method in a clear manner using comprehensive examples.

Coffee rings, paint drying, blood splatter are all examples of complex fluids drying.

Equipping readers with the ability to analyze the aerodynamic forces on an aircraft, the book provides comprehensive knowledge of the characteristics of subsonic and supersonic airflow.

A comprehensive graduate-level textbook on classical dynamics with many worked examples and over 200 homework exercises, first published in 1998.

An Introduction to Compressible Flow, Second Edition covers the material typical of a single-semester course in compressible flow.

This book has been prepared under the auspices of Commission I.

Discusses the use of manipulators on satellites and the dynamics of satellites carrying robotic manipulators and of planetary rovers.

This book is an introduction to astrophysical hydrodynamics for both astronomy and physics students.

Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems, Third Edition: with MATLAB(R) Applications provides systematic and efficient approaches to the design of thermal systems, which are of interest in a wide range of applications.

This textbook combines rigorous mathematical analysis with combustion science to address standard problems in reactive fluid mechanics.

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

Thermal and flow processes are ubiquitous in mechanical, aerospace and chemical engineering systems.

Leading experts present the current state of knowledge of the subject of magnetoconvection from the viewpoint of applied mathematics.

This book is the first to present flow measurement as an independent branch of the measurement techniques, according to a new global and unitary approach for the measurement of fluid flow field, starting from finding its unitary fundamental bases.

This revised edition provides updated fluid mechanics measurement techniques as well as a comprehensive review of flow properties required for research, development, and application.

This standard work has new chapters devoted to unsteady RANS and to how LES and RANS strategies are effectively combined.

This book integrates principles of flow through porous media with stochastic analyses, for advanced-level students, researchers and professionals in hydrogeology and hydraulics.

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

This new volume, Design and Construction of Laboratory Gas Pipelines: A Practical Reference for Engineers and Professionals, focuses on design and installation of laboratory gas pipelines.

The main objective of the book is to highlight the modeling of magnetic particles with different shapes and magnetic properties, to provide graduate students and young researchers information on the theoretical aspects and actual techniques for the treatment of magnetic particles in particle-based simulations.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the nucleation, motion, and interaction between crystalline defects called dislocations.

This is the third volume in a four-part series on Fluid Dynamics: PART 1: Classical Fluid Dynamics PART 2: Asymptotic Problems of Fluid Dynamics PART 3: Boundary Layers PART 4: Hydrodynamic Stability Theory The series is designed to give a comprehensive and coherent description of fluid dynamics, starting with chapters on classical theory suitable for an introductory undergraduate lecture course, and then progressing through more advanced material up to the level of modern research in the field.

A comprehensive introduction to direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows for researchers and graduate students in various fields.

Adsorption, Ion Exchange and Catalysis is essentially a mixture of environmental science and chemical reactor engineering.

Fundamentals of Gas-Particle Flow is an edited, updated, and expanded version of a number of lectures presented on the "e;Gas-Solid Suspensions course organized by the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.

Industrial mixing processes often present multiple optimization challenges to producing desirable products.

Comprehensive textbook prioritising physical ideas over mathematical detail.

Fully comprehensive introduction to the rapidly emerging area of micro systems technology Transport Phenomena in Micro Systems explores the fundamentals of the new technologies related to Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).

Fluid Mechanics: A Problem-Solving Approach provides a clear distinction between integral formulation and the different formulation of conservation law.

Microfluidics: Modeling, Mechanics and Mathematics, Second Edition provides a practical, lab-based approach to nano- and microfluidics, including a wealth of practical techniques, protocols and experiments ready to be put into practice in both research and industrial settings.

This practical book provides instruction on how to conduct several "e;hands-on"e; experiments for laboratory demonstration in the teaching of heat transfer and fluid dynamics.

Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, this book presents the fundamental ideas of fluid mechanics from a physics perspective.

Parallel CFD 2000, the Twelfth in an International series of meetings featuring computational fluid dynamics research on parallel computers, was held May 22-25, 2000 in Trondheim, Norway.

Presented in an accessible and introductory manner, this is the first book devoted to the comprehensive study of colloidal suspensions.

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

Provides an introduction to the modeling, analysis, design, measurement and real-world applications of vibrations, with online interactive graphics.

The rotating shallow water (RSW) model is of wide use as a conceptual tool in geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD), because, in spite of its simplicity, it contains all essential ingredients of atmosphere and ocean dynamics at the synoptic scale, especially in its two- (or multi-) layer version.

Numerical Methods for Unsteady Compressible Flow Problems is written to give both mathematicians and engineers an overview of the state of the art in the field, as well as of new developments.

How nonlinear dynamics and statistical mechanics can be applied to geophysical fluid dynamics.