Engineering: Mechanics of fluids

The Second Monte Verita Colloquium Fundamental Problematic Issues in Turbu- lence was held in Monte Verita, Switzerland, on March 23-27, 1998.

This book is intended to be both a thorough introduction to contemporary research in optimization theory for elliptic systems with its numerous applications and a textbook at the undergraduate and graduate level for courses in pure or applied mathematics or in continuum mechanics.

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

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

This book re-examines the conventional pressure-temperature phase diagrams of pure substances, taking into account a universally acknowledged, albeit often neglected, state of matter-the plasma phase.

The book provides basic and recent research insights concerning the small scale modeling and simulation of turbulent multi-phase flows.

This book looks at chemmotological solutions to important questions surrounding sustainability and environmental safety of transport - both key priorities within the global strategy of sustainable development.

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

This book looks at chemmotological solutions to important questions surrounding sustainability and environmental safety of transport - both key priorities within the global strategy of sustainable development.

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

This CIME Series book provides mathematical and simulation tools to help resolve environmental hazard and security-related issues.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to 3D Light-Field camera based imaging, exploring the working principles, developments and its applications in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics measurements.

This textbook provides a general overview of porous media flow, and introduces various theoretical tools to characterize and predict the flow.

This book provides the fundamental knowledge allowing students in engineering and natural sciences to enter fluid mechanics and its applications in various fields where fluid flows need to be dealt with.

This book has been written for the introductory course of fluid mechanics for students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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

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

This Handbook helps to design and build any kind of force measurement equipment for the use in a wind tunnel.

Now in the third edition, this text on open-channel flow presents introductory material on the topic as well as up-to-date information for the planning, design, and operation of water-resource projects.

The book covers the classical areas of technical thermodynamics: The first part deals with the basic equations for energy conversion and idealized fluids.

This book covers state-of-the-art development in microfluidics-enabled soft manufacturing (MESM), ranging from fundamentals to applications.

This textbook explains turbulent flows using an introductory but fundamental approach to teaching the core principles, striking a balance between theoretical and practical aspects of the topic without overwhelming the reader with mathematical detail.

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.

"e;Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important.

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

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

This compact text is a powerful introduction to the Excel/VBA computing environment.

This text provides a clear understanding of the fundamental principles of thermal and fluid sciences in a concise manner in a rigorous yet easy to follow language and presentation.

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

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

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

The book reports on the latest theoretical and experimental findings in the field of active flow and combustion control, in the context of energy conversion for power and propulsion systems.

This text provides the reader with tools necessary to study biological and bio-inspired flows, all the while developing an appreciation for their evolutionary and engineering constraints.

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

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

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

The book provides design engineers an elemental understanding of the variables that influence pressure drop and heat transfer in plain and micro-fin tubes to thermal systems using liquid single-phase flow in different industrial applications.

This book presents a theoretical analysis of the modern methods used for modeling various chemical engineering processes.

This monograph presents an original, concise mathematical theory for bio-mimetic swimmers in the framework of a coupled system of PDEs and ODEs.

This book provides the latest achievements and original research work in physics of combustion processes and application of the methods developed in combustion physics for astrophysical problems of stars burning, supernovae explosions and a confined thermonuclear fusion.

This book provides a guiding thread between the distant fields of fluid mechanics and clinical cardiology.

This timely book introduces the subject of Fluid-Structure Interactions (FSI) to students and professionals.

This book systematically presents the consolidated findings of the phenomenon of self-organization observed during the onset of thermoacoustic instability using approaches from dynamical systems and complex systems theory.

This volume collects the edited and reviewed contribution presented in the 9th iTi Conference that took place virtually, covering fundamental and applied aspects in turbulence.

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 on computational techniques for thermal and fluid-dynamic problems arose from seminars given by the author at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

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

Numerical simulation methods in all engineering disciplines gains more and more importance.