Engineering: Mechanics of fluids

This Brief describes six basic models of buoyancy-driven convection in a fluid layer: three configurations of internally heated convection and three configurations of Rayleigh-Benard convection.

This comprehensive and carefully edited volume presents a variety of experimental methods used in Shock Waves research.

This Brief addresses the phenomena of instability in flow boiling in microchannels occurring in high heat flux electronic cooling.

This book offers a comprehensive collection of the most advanced numerical techniques for the efficient and effective solution of simulation and optimization problems governed by systems of time-dependent differential equations.

This book focuses on the modeling and analysis of heat and fluid flow in microchannels and micro-systems, compiling a number of analytical and hybrid numerical-analytical solutions for models that account for the relevant micro-scale effects, with the corresponding experimental analysis validation when applicable.

This text provides an introduction to the science that governs the interaction of light and matter (in the gas phase).

This book reconsiders the basic approaches behind the BEM method and in particular assesses and validates the equations forming the general momentum theory.

The book reports on advanced solutions to the problem of simulating wing and nacelle stall, as presented and discussed by internationally recognized researchers at the Closing Symposium of the DFG Research Unit FOR 1066.

This monograph presents results of the analytical and numerical modeling of convective heat and mass transfer in different rotating flows caused by (i) system rotation, (ii) swirl flows due to swirl generators, and (iii) surface curvature in turns and bends.

Aerodynamic design, like many other engineering applications, is increasingly relying on computational power.

This short, practical book offers advice on the safe storage, handling and transportation of liquid natural gas (LNG), liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and other cryogenic fluid mixtures.

This is the proceedings of the ERCOFTAC Workshop on Progress in Wall Turbulence: Understanding and Modelling, that was held in Lille, France from June 18 to 20, 2014.

The book presents the state of the art in high-performance computing and simulation on modern supercomputer architectures.

This Brief addresses the phenomena of heat transfer and pressure drop in flow boiling in micro channels occurring in high heat flux electronic cooling.

This Brief describes systematically results of research studies on a series of convective heat transfer phenomena from rotating disks in air crossflow.

This volume contains papers presented at the International conference "e;The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles III: Trucks, Buses and Trains"e; held in Potsdam, Germany, September 12-17, 2010 by Engineering Conferences International (ECI).

This book develops the theoretical foundations of disperse two-phase flows, which are characterized by the existence of bubbles, droplets or solid particles finely dispersed in a carrier fluid, which can be a liquid or a gas.

This thesis presents experimental and theoretical investigations of the connection between the time asymmetry in the short-time evolution of particle clusters and the intrinsic irreversibility of turbulent flows due to the energy cascade.

This book deals with solving mathematically the unsteady flame propagation equations.

Mathematical analyses and computational predictions of the behavior of complex systems are needed to effectively deal with weather and climate predictions, for example, and the optimal design of technical processes.

This Brief concerns the important problem of critical heat flux in flow boiling in microchannels.

Rotordynamics of automotive turbochargers is dealt with in this book encompassing the widely working field of small turbomachines under real operating conditions at the very high rotor speeds up to 300000 rpm.

This text covers the fundamentals of thermodynamics required to understand electrical power generation systems and the application of these principles to nuclear reactor power plant systems.

This work presents modern implementations of relevant molecular dynamics algorithms using ls1 mardyn, a simulation program for engineering applications.

This book gives the background to differential-pressure flow measurement and goes through the requirements explaining the reason for them.

This textbook explores both the theoretical foundation of the Finite Volume Method (FVM) and its applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

This proceedings present the results of the 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW29) which was held in Madison, Wisconsin, U.

This proceedings present the results of the 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW29) which was held in Madison, Wisconsin, U.

The book encompasses novel CFD techniques to compute offshore wind and tidal applications.

This book adopts a practical approach and presents recent research together with applications in real submarine design and operation.

This book covers the major problems of turbulence and turbulent processes, including physical phenomena, their modeling and their simulation.

This book presents recent progress in the application of RANS turbulence models based on the Reynolds stress transport equations.

This book provides a basic introduction to reduced basis (RB) methods for problems involving the repeated solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) arising from engineering and applied sciences, such as PDEs depending on several parameters and PDE-constrained optimization.

In its fifth extended edition the successful monograph package "e;Multiphase Flow Dynamics"e; contains theory, methods and practical experience for describing complex transient multi-phase processes in arbitrary geometrical configurations, providing a systematic presentation of the theory and practice of numerical multi-phase fluid dynamics.

This Volume 5 of the successful book package "e;Multiphase Flow Dynamics"e; is devoted to nuclear thermal hydraulics which is a substantial part of nuclear reactor safety.

This book gathers the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Hybrid RANS-LES Methods, which was held on March 19-21 in College Station, Texas, USA.

This book deals with colloidal systems in technical processes and the influence of colloidal systems by technical processes.

This book introduces novel design techniques developed to increase the safety of aircraft engines.

This book presents, in a self-contained fashion, a series of studies on flow and heat transfer in porous media, in which distinct energy balances are considered for the porous matrix and for the permeating fluid.

This innovative text emphasizes a "e;less-is-more"e; approach to modeling complicated systems such as heat transfer by treating them first as "e;1-node lumped models"e; that yield simple closed-form solutions.

This volume reflects the state of the art of numerical simulation of transitional and turbulent flows and provides an active forum for discussion of recent developments in simulation techniques and understanding of flow physics.

This successful book gives an introduction to the basics of aerothermodynamics, as applied in particular to winged re-entry vehicles and airbreathing hypersonic cruise and acceleration vehicles.

This book is one of the first devoted to an account of theories of thermal convection which involve local thermal non-equilibrium effects, including a concentration on microfluidic effects.

This ground-breaking reference provides an overview of key concepts in dimensional analysis, and then pushes well beyond traditional applications in fluid mechanics to demonstrate how powerful this tool can be in solving complex problems across many diverse fields.

How and why does sail boat performance depend on the configuration and trim of boat and sails?

This book deals with magnetorheological fluid theory, modeling and applications of automotive magnetorheological dampers.

The book describes the main findings of the EU-funded project IDIHOM (Industrialization of High-Order Methods - A Top-Down Approach).

Together, the volumes in this series present all of the data needed at various length scales for a multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, especially multiscale modeling and coupled simulations.

The book reports on the latest theoretical and experimental advances in the field of active flow and combustion control.

This book, Advances in Water Resources Engineering, Volume 14, covers the topics on watershed sediment dynamics and modeling, integrated simulation of interactive surface water and groundwater systems, river channel stabilization with submerged vanes, non-equilibrium sediment transport, reservoir sedimentation, and fluvial processes, minimum energy dissipation rate theory and applications, hydraulic modeling development and application, geophysical methods for assessment of earthen dams, soil erosion on upland areas by rainfall and overland flow, geofluvial modeling methodologies and applications, and environmental water engineering glossary.