Physics: Fluid mechanics

The monograph presents a detailed mathematical examination of the generalised laws of diffusion in capillary porous solids as applicable to particular geometric situations of interest in the technology of drying.

The book may be viewed as an introduction to time-harmonic waves in dissipative bodies, notably viscoelastic solids and fluids.

In a significantly revised English edition the text provides a solid course on mechanics of porous & fractured media (mainly of geomaterials).

The book describes the progress made in understanding the phenomena of various hydrodynamic instabilities over the last thirty years.

Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a relatively new simulation technique for the modeling of complex fluid systems and has attracted interest from researchers in computational physics.

Although Pade presented his fundamental paper at the end of the last century, the studies on Pade's approximants only became significant in the second part of this century.

This is a collection of four lectures on some mathematical aspects related to the nonlinear Boltzmann equation.

Hydrodynamic stability is of fundamental importance in the mechanics of fluids and is mainly concerned with the problem of the transition to turbulence.

This book presents a unified treatment of the mechanics of mixtures of several constituents within the context of continuum mechanics.

This book is an exposition of a new approach to the Navier-Stokes equations, using powerful techniques provided by nonstandard analysis, as developed by the authors.

This book deals with a spectrum of problems related to the mathematical modeling of multiphase filtration.

This graduate level textbook covers the topics of sound waves, water waves and stability problems in fluids.

The state of the art in a theory of oscillatory and wave phenomena in hydrodynamical flows is presented in this book.

This invaluable book presents a concise but systematic account of the formation of spatial flow structures in a horizontal fluid layer heated from below.

This book presents some recent mathematical developments about neutron transport equations.

This volume deals with the propagation of three-dimensional shock waves and their reflection from curved walls.

The first volume of Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics was published in 1994 and was dedicated to Prof Antony Jameson.

This volume collects the articles presented at the Third International Conference on "e;The Navier-Stokes Equations: Theory and Numerical Methods"e;, held in Oberwolfach, Germany.

This important and timely book deals with the theoretical and experimental investigation of the phase transitions which occur in complex fluid systems, namely lyotropic systems, microemulsions, colloids, biological membranes, and ferrofluids.

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.

Vortex methods have been developed and applied to many kinds of flows related to various problems in wide engineering and scientific fields.

This book constitutes a comprehensive survey of the balance equations for mass, momentum and energy for the interfaces in pure fluids and mixtures.

This book consists of 20 review articles dedicated to Prof.

This volume presents recent advances in computational fluid dynamics.

Quantum liquids in confined geometries exhibit a large variety of new and interesting phenomena.

This series of volumes on the "e;Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics"e; was introduced to honor contributors who have made a major impact on the field.

First organized in 1981, the WASCOM conference to bring together researchers and scientists from all over the world to discuss problems, promote collaborations and shape future directions for research in the field of stability and wave propagation in continuous media.

This book surveys analytical and numerical techniques appropriate to the description of fluid motion with an emphasis on the most widely used techniques exhibiting the best performance.

This volume contains recent research papers presented at the international workshop on "e;Probabilistic Methods in Fluids"e; held in Swansea.

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

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 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.

The series of volumes to which this book belongs honors contributors who have made a major impact in computational fluid dynamics.

This book discusses the subject of wave/current flow around a cylinder, the forces induced on the cylinder by the flow, and the vibration pattern of slender structures in a marine environment.

With the increasing awareness of the heavy burden placed on environmental resources and the need for industry and public institutions to cope with more stringent regulations, this timely book focuses on some specific, but very important, environmental problems, namely, surface and subsurface hydrosystems.

The book provides an original approach in the research of structural analysis of free developed shear compressible turbulence at high Reynolds number on the base of direct numerical simulation (DNS) and instability evolution for ideal medium (integral conservation laws) with approximate mechanism of dissipation (FLUX dissipative monotone "e;upwind"e; difference schemes) and does not use any explicit sub-grid approximation and semi-empirical models of turbulence.

Multi-Scale Phenomena in Complex Fluids is a collection of lecture notes delivered during the first two series of mini-courses from "e;Shanghai Summer School on Analysis and Numerics in Modern Sciences"e;, which was held in 2004 and 2006 at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

This book is devoted to analysis of Monte Carlo methods developed in rarefied gas dynamics.

This is a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the mathematical problems of thermal convection.

Environmental fluid mechanics (EFM) is the scientific study of transport, dispersion and transformation processes in natural fluid flows on our planet Earth, from the microscale to the planetary scale.

The Proceedings of the 1st Conference on New Trends in Fluid and Solid Models provide an overview of results and new models in fluid dynamics and, in general, in continuum mechanics.

The interaction of a fluid with a solid body is a widespread phenomenon in nature, occurring at different scales and different applied disciplines.

This book consists of important contributions by world-renowned experts on adaptive high-order methods in computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

This volume contains 25 review articles by experts which provide up-to-date information about the recent progress in computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

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.

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.

Gravity pervades the whole universe; hence buoyancy drives fluids everywhere including those in the atmospheres and interiors of planets and stars.

The monograph addresses a canonical problem in linear water wave theory, through the development-detailed, asymptotic analysis of contour integrals in the complex plane.

This is an introductory textbook on the geometrical theory of dynamical systems, fluid flows and certain integrable systems.

This is an introductory textbook on the geometrical theory of dynamical systems, fluid flows, and certain integrable systems.