Engineering: Mechanics of fluids

This book gives an in-depth analysis of the physical phenomena of thrust production by laser radiation, as well as laser propulsion engines, and laser-propelled vehicles.

This textbook explores the working principles of all kinds of turbomachines.

This book focuses on developing strategies for ultra-lean combustion of natural gas and hydrogen, and contributes to the research on extending the lean flammability limit of hydrogen and air using a hot supersonic jet.

This book addresses the evaluation and optimization of key elements in concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies, such as solar receivers and working fluids, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling.

The book provides the theoretical fundamentals on turbulence and a complete overview of turbulence models, from the simplest to the most advanced ones including Direct and Large Eddy Simulation.

This book provides the intermittency equation that is derived a priori.

This textbook has been primarily written for undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students studying the mechanics of solids and structural systems.

This book analyses the use of a pulsed gas flow to structure bubbling gas-solid fluidised beds and to induce a special fluidisation state, called "e;dynamically structured flow"e;, as a promising approach to process intensification.

This book introduces the concept of unsteady aerodynamics and its underlying principles.

This thesis is concerned with flows through cascades, i.

Compressibility is a property inherent in any material, but it does not always manifest itself.

No pyrometallurgical smelter can operate without some form of tapping system.

This book presents step-by-step description of the use of Lie group analysis to find symmetry forms and similarity solutions for single- and two-phase laminar and turbulent flows of nanofluids.

The book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the most recent developments in finite volume methods.

The book describes the thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and working principle of the Ranque Hilsch Vortex Tube.

This book aims at providing a computational framework of radiative heat transfer in participating media.

This book covers theoretical and experimental findings at the interface between fluid mechanics, heat transfer and energy technologies.

This book gathers contributions to the 20th biannual symposium of the German Aerospace Aerodynamics Association (STAB) and the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR).

This book focuses on CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) techniques and the recent developments and research works in thermo-mechanics applications.

This thesis addresses computation fluid dynamics modelling of aortic dissection (AD), in order to generate in silico diagnostic information and assess 'virtual surgery' outcomes.

This book presents the results of scientific research performed over the past two decades by the authors.

This volume comprises the carefully revised papers of the 9th IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, held at the Imperial College, London, UK, in September 2019.

This monograph presents a synopsis of fluid dynamics based on the personal scientific experience of the author who has contributed immensely to the field.

This book offers timely insights into research on numerical and experimental fluid mechanics and aerodynamics, mainly for (but not limited to) aerospace applications.

This brief explains in detail fundamental concepts in acoustic cavitation and bubble dynamics, and describes derivations of the fundamental equations of bubble dynamics in order to support those readers just beginning research in this field.

This book is dedicated to readers who want to learn fluid dynamics from the beginning.

This volume introduces the fundamentals of adsorption heat pumps, beginning with the simplest cycle and building to the most complex.

This book presents a collection of recent contributions in the field of transport phenomena in multiphase systems, namely, heat and mass transfer.

This book tells the story of how the science of computational multiphase flow began in an effort to better analyze hypothetical light water power reactor accidents, including the "e;loss of coolant"e; accident.

This Brief describes and analyzes flow and heat transport over a liquid-saturated porous bed.

This book presents isothermal and non-isothermal multiphase flows with and without phase change or chemical reactions.

The book contains 12 chapters written by well-known shock wave researchers from seven different countries.

This thesis offers new insights into the fluid flow behavior of automotive centrifugal compressors operating under near-stall conditions.

Turbulence is a research field where high expectations have met with recurrent frustration.

This book focuses on the application of classical combustion theory to ignition and flame propagation in solid-solid and gas-solid systems.

This book presents a snapshot of the state-of-art in the field of turbulence modeling, with an emphasis on numerical methods.

The book surveys the state-of-the-art methods that are currently available to model and simulate the presence of rigid particles in a fluid flow.

This book studies solutions of the Polubarinova-Galin and Lowner-Kufarev equations, which describe the evolution of a viscous fluid (Hele-Shaw) blob, after the time when these solutions have lost their physical meaning due to loss of univalence of the mapping function involved.

This book focuses on the dissemination of information of permanent interest in thermo-mechanics applications and engineering technology.

This book presents various dynamic processes in non-uniform piezoceramic cylindrical and spherical bodies based on numerical methods.

This book systematically describes the status quo and future development of cold spray additive manufacturing technology.

This book deals with a natural convective heat transfer situation of significant practical importance that has not been adequately dealt with in existing texts or widely available review papers: natural convective heat transfer from horizontal and near horizontal surfaces.

Encompassing both practical applications and recent research developments, this book takes the reader from fundamental physics, through cutting-edge new designs of ejectors for refrigeration.

The book introduces modern high-order methods for computational fluid dynamics.

This textbook on Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics will help students with a background in mechanical and/or aerospace engineering and practicing engineers working in the areas of aerospace propulsion and gas dynamics by providing a rigorous examination of most practical engineering problems.

This book considers the kinematics and dynamics of the flows of fluids exhibiting a yield stress.

This book presents experimental and numerical methods that have been developed during six years of targeted research within the DFG priority program SPP 1740, elucidating the interaction between hydrodynamics, mass transfer and transport as well as chemical reactions in bubbly flows.

This book presents an in-depth systematic investigation of a dissipative effect which manifests itself as the growth of hydrodynamic stability and suppression of turbulence in relaxing molecular gas flows.

The book introduces modern atomistic techniques for predicting heat transfer in nanostructures, and discusses the applications of these techniques on three modern topics.

This book commemorates the 60th birthday of Dr.