Engineering: Mechanics of fluids

In einer Zeit ständig steigenden Energie- und Rohstoffbedarfes hat die Kohle trotz der Erschließung anderer Quellen ihre Bedeutung als Energieträger und Grundstoff für die Industrie behalten.

This book presents a novel method for the numerical simulation of swimming animals.

This book summarizes the modeling of the transport, evolution and fate of particles in the coastal ocean for advanced students and researchers.

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

The second of two volumes, this edited proceedings book features research presented at the XVI International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems held in Aachen, Germany in summer 2016.

Research into the fascinating properties and applications of magnetic fluids - also called ferrofluids - is rapidly growing, making it necessary to provide, at regular intervals, a coherent and tutorial account of the combined theoretical and experimental advances in the field.

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

It is our pleasure to present these proceedings from the United Engineering Foundation Conference on The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses and Trains held December 2-6, 2002, in Monterey, California.

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt ergänzend zu den Grundlagenwerken der Strömungsmechanik die praktische Anwendung numerischer Methoden in Industrieprojekten.

This first volume of the textbook Hydraulic and Thermal Machines introduces readers to all necessary fundamentals to understand and operate hydraulic and thermal machines.

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

A unique and in-depth discussion uncovering the unifying features of collision phenomena in liquids and solids, along with applications.

Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion with Applications is an introductory 2005 text in air-breathing jet propulsion including ramjets, turbojets, turbofans and propjets.

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

This book illustrates the latest progress on the hydrodynamic instabilities induced by a shock wave, particularly RM (Richtmyer-Meshkov) instability.

This multi-disciplinary book presents the most recent advances in exergy, energy, and environmental issues.

Presents practical methods for detecting, diagnosing and correcting fluid power problems within a system.

The book examines the role of thermodynamical aspects to derive governing equations and studies applications involving potential and viscous flows.

The volumes in this authoritative series present a multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, especially multiscale modeling and coupled simulations.

This book introduces an interesting and alternative way to design absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs) for quantum wave equations, basically the nonlinear Schrodinger equation.

Numerical Simulation of Effluent Discharges: Applications with OpenFOAM provides a resource for understanding the effluent discharge mechanisms and the approaches for modeling them.

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

This thesis focuses on the development of high-order finite volume methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods, and presents possible solutions to a number of important and common problems encountered in high-order methods, such as the shock-capturing strategy and curved boundary treatment, then applies these methods to solve compressible flows.

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

While other methods of drag reduction are well-known in marine R&D and ship design environments worldwide, compliant coating drag reduction remains less well-known and poorly understood.

Fluid Effects in Polymers and Polymeric Composites, written by the late Dr.

This contributed volume is based on talks given at the August 2016 summer school "e;Fluids Under Pressure,"e; held in Prague as part of the "e;Prague-Sum"e; series.

Earthen levees are extensively used to protect the population and infrastructure from periodic floods and high water due to storm surges.

This thesis proposes a new raft-type wave-powered desalination device that can convert wave power into hydraulic energy and use reverse osmosis (RO) to directly desalinate seawater.

This book presents a novel method for the numerical simulation of swimming animals.

This book outlines the computational fluid dynamics evolution and gives an overview of the methods available to the engineer.

Written by the leading experts in the field, this book results from Vortex Workshop 2023 which took place in San Diego, the USA, on December 11-13.

Experts describe state-of-the-art micro-nano techniques for cell mechanobiology and introduce the most recent advances in the field.

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

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.

When the four of us decided to collaborate to write this book on pneumatic conveying, there were two aspects which were of some concern.

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This is a modern, example-driven introductory textbook on heat transfer, with modern applications, written by a renowned scholar.

This book aims at providing the reader with up-to-date knowledge about Tesla turbine features, mechanical design, and performance characteristics.

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

We inhabit a world of fluids, including air (a gas), water (a liquid), steam (vapour) and the numerous natural and synthetic fluids which are essential to modern-day life.

This second volume of the textbook Hydraulic and Thermal Machines focuses on thermal machines.

Hydrostatic Transmissions and Actuators takes a pedagogical approach and begins with an overview of the subject, providing basic definitions and introducing fundamental concepts.

The book is designed for advanced graduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers across several disciplines (e.

This textbook presents the fundamental of transport phenomena and metallurgical process modeling in easy-to-understand format.

Presents the fundamentals of chemical engineering fluid mechanics with an emphasis on valid and practical approximations in modeling.

This book presents insights from the IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Design of Mechanical Systems Across Different Length/Time Scales.