Engineering: Mechanics of fluids

This book is devoted to recent developments in the field of rotating fluids, in particular the study of Taylor--Couette flow, spherical Couette flow, planar Couette flow, as well as rotating annulus flow.

The need to predict, understand, and optimize complex physical and c- mical processes occurring in and around the earth, such as groundwater c- tamination, oil reservoir production, discovering new oil reserves, and ocean hydrodynamics, has been increasingly recognized.

This book covers the latest advancements and applications of nonlinear dynamics in various fields of science and engineering, presenting a curated selection of peer-reviewed contributions at the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications (ICNDA 2024) at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT).

This book provides a clear and concise understanding of the principles and applications of HVACR using a rigorous, yet, easy to follow presentation.

This book provides a clear and concise understanding of the principles and applications of HVACR using a rigorous, yet, easy to follow presentation.

Small Wind Turbines provides a thorough grounding in analysing, designing, building, and installing a small wind turbine.

In the process industries, stiction is the most common performance-limiting valve problem and over the last decade numerous different techniques for overcoming it have been proposed.

Open-channel hydraulics are described by hyperbolic equations, derived from laws of conservation of mass and momentum, called Saint-Venant equations.

This book is the result of 40 years of the combined authors' experience in mechanical and fluid dynamics engineering.

Modelling, Monitoring and Diagnostic Techniques for Fluid Power Systems covers the background theory of fluid power and indicates the range of concepts needed for a modern approach to condition monitoring and fault diagnosis.

Over the past several years, significant advances have been made in developing the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for applications in fluid flow and heat transfer.

This book presents a summary of the topic of supercooling during crystallization in condensed films.

This is a book about biolubricants.

This book covers the latest advancements and applications of nonlinear dynamics in various fields of science and engineering, presenting a curated selection of peer-reviewed contributions at the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications (ICNDA 2024) at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT).

This book comprehensively describes the tip streaming in simple fluids and those containing surfactants and polymeric molecules.

This book provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and comprehensible description of the theoretical background and numerical methodologies corresponding to advanced particle methods formulated in classical Newtonian mechanics for simulation of fluids, structures, and their interactions.

This book originated from seminars given at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology (INET) of Tsinghua University, China, by the author in 1999.

This book focuses on the foundations of compressible flow, illustrating the use of principles of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics in the development of compressible flow equations.

This book presents the advanced theory and application of the combined Computational Fluid Dynamics - Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM) to multiphase flow simulations of the gas and bio-particulate matter of non-uniformly shaped biomass.

This book provides graduate students and scientists with fundamental knowledge on the mechanics of granular suspensions as well as on the mathematical and numerical techniques that can be adopted to investigate geophysical flows.

This book bridges the gap between theoretical rheology and practical industry applications by introducing Control Theory (CT) and the linear Unified Model.

This book features 31 studies that collectively explore a wide range of innovative engineering solutions and advanced technologies across various fields.

With the growing attention to the exploitation of renewable energies and heat recovery from industrial processes, the traditional steam and gas cycles are showing themselves often inadequate.

In this book we will introduce the modeling process of turbulent particulate flows which are encountered in many engineering and environmental applications.

Since the 1970's, an increasing amount of specialized research has focused on the problems created by instability of internal flow in hydroelectric power plants.

Sloshing causes liquid to fluctuate, making accurate level readings difficult to obtain in dynamic environments.

In the 70+ year history of control theory and engineering, few applications have stirred as much excitement as flow control.

A follow on from the author's work "e;Finite Elements in Heat Transfer"e; which we published 11/94, and which is a powerful CFD programme that will run on a PC.

This book covers a number of models and control types.

This book covers the latest ideas and approaches in strongly nonlinear dynamical and acoustical systems and discusses appropriate modelling tools and practical examples highlighting the non-standard and non-stationary aspects of this challenging, yet so promising area.

This book features 31 studies that collectively explore a wide range of innovative engineering solutions and advanced technologies across various fields.

Lattice Boltzmann Method introduces the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for solving transport phenomena - flow, heat and mass transfer - in a systematic way.

Stabilization of Navier-Stokes Flows presents recent notable progress in the mathematical theory of stabilization of Newtonian fluid flows.

This textbook, based on the author's classroom-tested lecture course, helps graduate students master the advanced plasma theory needed to unlock results at the forefront of current research.

Starting at the level of graduate students, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field of turbulence.

This book includes selected peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology; ICSET 2023 held at the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a focus on the theme "e;Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This book is for students, teachers, and practicing engineers and describes an industrial approach to gas turbine engine simulation, mainly for aircraft propulsion.

These proceedings highlight the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells.

These proceedings highlight the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells.

This book includes selected peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology; ICSET 2023 held at the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a focus on the theme "e;Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

As we enter an exciting new era in industrial design, simulation, and manufacturing, a clear understanding of mechanics of solids is needed now more than ever.

This textbook, based on the author's classroom-tested lecture course, helps graduate students master the advanced plasma theory needed to unlock results at the forefront of current research.

This book provides a systematical investigation on the reservoir characteristics and percolation mechanism of ultradeep carbonate gas reservoirs, including reservoir characteristics and classification, gas storage and percolation capacities, gas-phase and gas-water two-phase percolation mechanism, microscale complex gas-water relationship, reservoir sensitivity characteristics, and gas production characteristics of heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed articles submitted for the proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2022), held by the School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, in association with Ramanujan Mathematical Society, India, Cryptology Research Society of India and Society for Electronic Transactions and Security, India, from 6-8 January 2022.

As we enter an exciting new era in industrial design, simulation, and manufacturing, a clear understanding of mechanics of solids is needed now more than ever.