Engineering: Mechanics of fluids

Canal and River Levees covers the fundamental principles of canal embankments and levees calculation and design.

This is a comprehensive, detailed coverage of the subject indicated by the title, embracing all aspects from design criteria over design to construction.

Held under the auspices of the International Association for Wind Engineering, 226 delegates from twenty-three countries took part in the conference.

The finite element method (FEM) is one of those modern numerical methods whose rise and development was incited by the rapid development of computers.

The main fields presented at this school were mesoscale and large scale flows, and nonlinear wave dynamics.

This volume is for use in technical universities, and for practising engineers who are involved with flow problems of non-Newtonian fluids.

This book provides working tools for the study and design of nonlinear dynamical systems applicable in physics and engineering.

This book provides working tools for the study and design of nonlinear dynamical systems applicable in physics and engineering.

Heat exchangers are essential in a wide range of engineering applications, including power plants, automobiles, airplanes, process and chemical industries, and heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration systems.

Heat exchangers are essential in a wide range of engineering applications, including power plants, automobiles, airplanes, process and chemical industries, and heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration systems.

Coanda effect is a complex fluid flow phenomenon enabling the production of vertical take-off/landing aircraft.

Coanda effect is a complex fluid flow phenomenon enabling the production of vertical take-off/landing aircraft.

This textbook surveys hydraulics and fluid power systems technology, with new chapters on system modeling and hydraulic systems controls now included.

This textbook surveys hydraulics and fluid power systems technology, with new chapters on system modeling and hydraulic systems controls now included.

Thermal convection is often encountered by scientists and engineers while designing or analyzing flows involving exchange of energy.

Thermal convection is often encountered by scientists and engineers while designing or analyzing flows involving exchange of energy.

Equipping readers with the ability to analyze the aerodynamic forces on an aircraft, the book provides comprehensive knowledge of the characteristics of subsonic and supersonic airflow.

Understanding the characteristics of material contact and lubrication at tribological interfaces is of great importance to engineering researchers and machine designers.

Equipping readers with the ability to analyze the aerodynamic forces on an aircraft, the book provides comprehensive knowledge of the characteristics of subsonic and supersonic airflow.

The Art of Measuring in the Thermal Sciences provides an original state-of-the-art guide to scholars who are conducting thermal experiments in both academia and industry.

The Art of Measuring in the Thermal Sciences provides an original state-of-the-art guide to scholars who are conducting thermal experiments in both academia and industry.

Wetting and Spreading Dynamics explains how surface forces acting at the three-phase contact line determine equilibrium, hysteresis contact angles, and other equilibrium and kinetics features of liquids when in contact with solids or with other immiscible liquids.

Wetting and Spreading Dynamics explains how surface forces acting at the three-phase contact line determine equilibrium, hysteresis contact angles, and other equilibrium and kinetics features of liquids when in contact with solids or with other immiscible liquids.

This book presents an account of theories of ?

Stability is a very important property of mathematical models simulating physical processes which provides an adequate description of the process.

Science and Engineering of Casting Solidification, Second Edition covers the essentials of solidification science of metals and alloys at macro- and micro-length scales at cooling rates specific to commercial castings and rapid solidification processing.

Capillary Forces in Microassembly discusses the use of capillary forces as a gripping principle in microscale assembly.

This book provides readers with the fundamentals necessary for understanding thermal spray technology.

Since their emergence in the early 1950s, ?

Analysis of open-channel flow is essential for the planning, design, and operation of water-resource projects.

Microfluidic Technologies for Miniaturized Analysis Systems provides a comprehensive overview of the fluidic aspects of Lab-on-a-Chip technology.

Introduction to Contact Mechanics, Second Edition is a gentle introduction to the mechanics of solid bodies in contact for graduate students, post doctoral individuals, and the beginning researcher.

Covering all aspects of transport phenomena on the nano- and micro-scale, Springer's Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics includes over 750 entries in three alphabetically-arranged volumes including the most up-to-date research, insights, and applied techniques across all areas.

Cryogenic Engineering: Fifty Years of Progress is a benchmark reference work which chronicles the major developments in the field.

BioNanoFluidic MEMS explains biosensor development fundamentals and initiates an awareness in engineers and scientists who would like to develop and implement novel biosensors for agriculture, biomedicine, home land security, environmental needs, and disease identification.

This book is intended to be an introduction to the theory of thermo-fluid dynamics of two-phase flow for graduate students, scientists and practicing engineers seriously involved in the subject.

In the last few years there has been significant progress in the development of microfluidics and nanofluidics at the application as well as at the fundamental and simulation levels.

Remarkable progress has recently been made in the application of quantumtrajectories as the computational tool for solving quantum mechanical problems.

A good understanding of turbulent compressible flows is essential to the design and operation of high-speed vehicles.

Differential equations, especially nonlinear, present the most effective way for describing complex physical processes.

The investigation of liquid properties is as old as the human desire to observe natural phenomena.

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are a powerful tool in science, mathematics, economics and finance.

The second edition (1997) of this text was a completely rewritten version of the original text Basic Coastal Engineering published in 1978.

The importance of mathematics in the study of problems arising from the real world, and the increasing success with which it has been used to model situations ranging from the purely deterministic to the stochastic, is well established.

This book presents a set of essays on interfacial instability, essays that are linked by a common question and a common focus: the question of the stability of a liquid jet and a focus on the surface tension acting at the interface between two phases.

Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biol- ical sciences, provoking a blurring of boundaries between scienti?

The book provides a comprehensive, detailed and self-contained treatment of the fundamental mathematical properties of boundary-value problems related to the Navier-Stokes equations.

The aim of this monograph is to describe the main concepts and recent - vances in multiscale ?

Microfluidics for Biological Applications provides researchers and scientists in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life science industries with an introduction to the basics of microfluidics and also discusses how to link these technologies to various biological applications at the industrial and academic level.