Engineering: Mechanics of fluids

This book covers virtually all of the engineering science and technological aspects of separating water from particulate solids in the mining industry.

This book is dedicated to the tube flow of viscoelastic fluids and Newtonian single and multi-phase particle-laden fluids.

Stability of Non-linear Constitutive Formulations for Viscoelastic Fluids provides a complete and up-to-date view of the field of constitutive equations for flowing viscoelastic fluids, in particular on their non-linear behavior, the stability of these constitutive equations that is their predictive power, and the impact of these constitutive equations on the dynamics of viscoelastic fluid flow in tubes.

This short primer provides a concise and tutorial-style introduction to transport phenomena in Newtonian fluids , in particular the transport of mass, energy and momentum.

This book gives a brief but thorough introduction to the fascinating subject of non-Newtonian fluids, their behavior and mechanical properties.

This work represents one of the first comprehensive attempts to seamlessly integrate two highly active interdisciplinary domains in soft matter science - microfluidics and liquid crystals (LCs).

This volume collects the edited and reviewed contributions presented in the 5th iTi Conference in Bertinoro covering fundamental aspects in turbulent flows.

This new volume of the annual review "e;Advances in Transport Phenomena"e; series contains three in-depth review articles on the microfluidic fabrication of vesicles, the dielectrophoresis field-flow fractionation for continuous-flow separation of particles and cells in microfluidic devices, and the thermodynamic analysis and optimization of heat exchangers, respectively.

This book presents a unified view of image motion analysis under the variational framework.

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

Accurate fluid level measurement in dynamic environments can be assessed using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) approach.

During confined flow of bulk solids in silos some characteristic phenomena can be created, such as: sudden and significant increase of wall stresses, different flow patterns, formation and propagation of wall and interior shear zones, fluctuation of pressures and, strong autogenous dynamic effects.

This text forms part of material taught during a course in advanced reservoir simulation at Delft University of Technology over the past 10 years.

This study discusses issues of optimal water management in a complex distribution system.

The book presents a collection of selected papers from the I Workshop of the Venezuelan Society of Fluid Mechanics held on Margarita Island, Venezuela from November 4 to 9, 2012.

This book collects invited lectures and selected contributions presented at the Enzo Levi and XVIII Annual Meeting of the Fluid Dynamic Division of the Mexican Physical Society in 2012.

This book presents information on the development of a non-equilibrium approach to the study of heat and mass transfer problems using vapor-liquid interfaces, and demonstrates its application to a broad range of problems.

The analysis and control of mixing is of great interest because of the potential for optimizing the performance of many flow processes.

In sport disciplines such as running, ice skating, bicycling and cross-country skiing the aerodynamic drag force constitutes the major obstacle to overcome.

A detailed overview and comprehensive analysis of the main theoretical and experimental advances on free surface thin film and jet flows of soft matter is given.

This volume - Waves in Geophysical Fluids - contains extended versions of the lec- tures that were given at a summerschool in Centre International des Sciences Mecaniques (CISM), Udine, Italy, during the week of 11-15 July 2005.

A book on atmospheric convection treated in detail from different angles including the theoretical aspects of atmospheric deep convection and the weather phenomena related to convection.

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Das Buch behandelt alle wesentlichen funktionellen Bereiche des modernen Ottomotors.

Stratified flows, common in environmental and geophysical applications, are char- acterized by the variation of fluid density in the vertical direction that can result in qualitative and quantitative modifications of the flow patterns by buoyancy .

Although nonlinear waves occur in nearly all branches of physics and engi- neering, there is an amazing degree of agreement about the fundamental con- cepts and the basic paradigms.

The objective of this book is to contribute to specialized literature with the most significant results obtained by the author in Continuous Mechanics and Astrophysics.

Recent investigations have highlighted the similarities between turbulence in cryogenic fluids at temperatures close to absolute zero, in particular superfluid helium, and turbulence in ordinary fluids.

This book deals with numerical simulations and computations of the turbulent flow around high-lift configurations commonly used in aircraft.

This book is an introduction to the theory, practice, and implementation of the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method, a powerful computational fluid dynamics method that is steadily gaining attention due to its simplicity, scalability, extensibility, and simple handling of complex geometries.

This book collects the latest results and new trends in the application of mathematics to some problems in control theory, numerical simulation and differential equations.

This volume presents one of the clinical foundations of vasculopathies: the biological markers and risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease.

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.

The book provides a detailed approach to the physics, fluid dynamics, modeling, experimentation and numerical simulation of cavitation phenomena, with special emphasis on cavitation-induced instabilities and their implications on the design and operation of high performance turbopumps and hydraulic turbines.

This is the first textbook on a generally applicable control strategy for turbulence and other complex nonlinear systems.

This volume fills the need for a textbook presenting basic governing and constitutive equations, followed by several engineering problems on multiphase flow and transport that are not provided in current advanced texts, monographs, or handbooks.

This thesis represents the first systematic description of the two-phase flow problem.

This book treats Modelling of CFD problems, Numerical tools for PDE, and Scientific Computing and Systems of ODE for Epidemiology, topics that are closely related to the scientific activities and interests of Prof.

This fully revised, industry-standard resource offers practical details on every aspect of the fundamentals necessary for understanding thermal spray technology, from powder all the way to the final part.

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 offers detailed insights into new methods for high-fidelity CFD, and their industrially relevant applications in aeronautics.

This book, on the general topic of hydroaerodynamics, investigates anumber of exciting applications in this field, addressing specifically issuesthat allow seemingly paradoxical issues to be dealt with.

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

Motivated by a plethora of phenomena from nature, this textbook introduces into the physics of wetting of surfaces.

This volume is about ultra high-speed cameras, which enable us to see what we normally do not see.