Physics: Fluid mechanics

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.

Multiphase Flows with Droplets and Particles provides an organized, pedagogical study of multiphase flows with particles and droplets.

A treatment of low-speed aerodynamics, covering both theory and computational techniques, first published in 2001.

The automobile is an icon of modern technology because it includes most aspects of modern engineering, and it offers an exciting approach to engineering education.

Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water Processes presents an overview on the properties and applications of water at elevated temperatures and pressures.

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

This book addresses the increasing energy demand and costs associated with the global refrigeration industry, primarily driven by the need for cooling.

This is the first-ever book on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and its variations, covering the theoretical background, numerical techniques, code implementation issues, and many novel and interesting applications.

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

Advances in Heat Transfer is designed to fill the information gap between regularly scheduled journals and university level textbooks by providing in-depth review articles over a broader scope than is allowablein either journals or texts.

This book addresses the increasing energy demand and costs associated with the global refrigeration industry, primarily driven by the need for cooling.

This book, an outgrowth of the author's distinguished lecture series in Japan in 1995, identifies and describes current results and issues in certain areas of computational fluid dynamics, mathematical physics, and linear algebra.

Mathematical Theory of Compressible Fluid Flow covers the conceptual and mathematical aspects of theory of compressible fluid flow.

Gaseous Electronics and Gas Lasers deals with the fundamental principles and methods of analysis of weakly ionized gas discharges and gas lasers.

Written by an experienced author with a strong background in applications of this field, this monograph provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the theory behind hydromechanics.

This book covers material ranging from classical hydrodynamic instability to contemporary research areas, including bluff body flow instability and mixed convection flows.

Biofluid mechanics is the study of a certain class of biological problems from a fluid mechanics point of view.

This volume comprises the final report of the research project entitled the Dynamics of the Deep Ocean Circulation.

Offers coverage of design, engineering, chemical resistance, costs, standards, codes and specifications.

A discussion of continuum mechanics which uniquely includes thermodynamics for engineering graduate students.

Aircraft Design Concepts: An Introductory Course introduces the principles of aircraft design through a quantitative approach developed from the author's extensive experience in teaching aircraft design.

Learn the design and analysis of numerical algorithms for aerodynamics.

This robust introduction to aerothermodynamics uses example-based teaching to provide students with a solid theoretical foundation linked to real-world engineering scenarios.

A selection of surveys and original research papers in mathematical fluid mechanics arising from a 2010 workshop held in Warwick.

Honoring the contributions of one of the field's leading experts, Lu Ting, this indispensable volume contains important new results at the cutting edge of research.

This book is a unified presentation of waves and flows occurring in the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, volcanoes and the mantle, for graduate students and researchers.

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

This graduate text on viscoelastic materials addresses design applications as diverse as earplugs, computer disks and medical diagnostics.

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.

When it comes to protecting coatings, it is essential to strike the right balance between controlling germs in order to avoid economic damage on the one hand and tolerating microbial life where it is necessary and useful on the other.

As global consumption of fossil fuels such as oil increases, previously abundant sources have become depleted or plagued with obstructions.

This textbook describes the fundamental "e;physical"e; aspects of fluid flows for beginners of fluid mechanics in physics, mathematics and engineering, from the point of view of modern physics.

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

As the chemical process industry is among the most energy demanding sectors, chemical engineers are endeavoring to contribute towards sustainable future.

Water (R718) Turbo Compressor and Ejector Refrigeration/Heat Pump Technology provides the latest information on efficiency improvements, a main topic in recent investigations of thermal energy machines, plants, and systems that include turbo compressors, ejectors, and refrigeration/heat pump systems.

Explore the nature of density-stratified flow over and around topography, including applications to the flow of the atmosphere and ocean.

Authoritative, highly readable history of aerodynamics and the major theorists and their contributions.

This is the first single-volume handbook with the information a researcher needs to select the best rheology modifiers for his/her project.

Designed for senior undergraduate or first-year graduate students in biomedical engineering, Biofluid Mechanics: The Human Circulation, Second Edition teaches students how fluid mechanics is applied to the study of the human circulatory system.

Providing a comprehensive grounding in the subject of turbulence, Statistical Theory and Modeling for Turbulent Flows develops both the physical insight and the mathematical framework needed to understand turbulent flow.

Nonlinear Control Techniques for Electro-Hydraulic Actuators in Robotics Engineering meets the needs of those working in advanced electro-hydraulic controls for modern mechatronic and robotic systems.

This distinctive text presents the basic principles of fluid mechanics by means of one-dimensional flow examples - differing significantly in style and content from other books.

Ideal for those involved in designing sheet metal forming processes, where the understanding of advances in plasticity theory is essential.

The author's research on energy storage systems generally was confronted with five characteristics, i.

In this book, a new approach to the theory and practice of two-phase systems based on a global invariant - entropy, - and other invariants is formulated and experimentally confirmed.

The first self-contained and comprehensive volume on atmospheric fronts, for students and instructors in atmospheric sciences and meteorology.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of advanced hybrid nanofluid applications in various fields while also explaining the real-time industrial applications of nanofluids.

A treatment of low-speed aerodynamics, covering both theory and computational techniques, first published in 2001.

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.

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