Essential fluid dynamics : for scientists /

The book is an introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, essential for students and researchers in many branches of science. It illustrates its fundamental principles with a variety of examples drawn mainly from astrophysics and geophysics as well as from everyday experience. Prior familiarity...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Braithwaite, Jonathan (συγγραφέας.)
Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: San Rafael [Καλιφόρνια] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2017.
Σειρά:IOP concise physics.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-1-6817-4597-8
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504 |a Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές. 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The fluid approximation -- 1.2. The hydrodynamic equations 
505 8 |a 2. Some basic concepts -- 2.1. Visualisation -- 2.2. Sound waves -- 2.3. Compressibility -- 2.4. Rotation of fluid elements -- 2.5. Gravitationally stratified fluid 
505 8 |a 3. Steady flow of an ideal fluid -- 3.1. Bernoulli's equation -- 3.2. Subsonic and supersonic flow -- 3.3. Flow through a nozzle -- 3.4. Stellar winds and accretion 
505 8 |a 4. Viscosity -- 4.1. The viscous stress tensor -- 4.2. Viscous heating -- 4.3. Examples of viscous flow -- 4.4. Similarity and dimensionless parameters -- 4.5. Regimes of viscous flow : example of flow past a solid body -- 4.6. Boundary layers -- 4.7. Heat diffusion 
505 8 |a 5. Waves and instabilities -- 5.1. Surface gravity waves -- 5.2. One fluid on top of another fluid -- 5.3. Shear instability between two fluids -- 5.4. Internal gravity waves -- 5.5. Convection -- 5.6. Baroclinic instability -- 5.7. Turbulence -- 5.8. The Jeans instability 
505 8 |a 6. Shocks -- 6.1. Viscous versus pressure gradient force -- 6.2. The jump conditions -- 6.3. Contexts -- 6.4. Hydraulic jumps 
505 8 |a 7. Vorticity and rotating fluids -- 7.1. Vortices -- 7.2. The vorticity equation -- 7.3. The momentum equation in a rotating frame of reference -- 7.4. The centrifugal force and the von Zeipel paradox -- 7.5. The vorticity equation in a rotating frame -- 7.6. Inertial waves -- 7.7. The Taylor-Proudman theorem -- 7.8. The geostrophic approximation -- 7.9. Rossby waves 
505 8 |a 8. Magnetohydrodynamics : equations and basic concepts -- 8.1. The MHD equations -- 8.2. The MHD approximation -- 8.3. The magnetic and other fields -- 8.4. A brief note concerning units -- 8.5. Field lines, flux conservation and flux freezing -- 8.6. Magnetic diffusivity -- 8.7. Magnetic pressure, tension and energy density -- 8.8. Waves -- 8.9. Different regimes in MHD -- 8.10. Magnetic helicity -- 8.11. MHD equilibria 
505 8 |a 9. MHD : astrophysical contexts -- 9.1. The solar corona -- 9.2. Jets : launching, collimation and instabilities -- 9.3. Angular momentum transport in discs -- Appendix A. Useful information. 
520 3 |a The book is an introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, essential for students and researchers in many branches of science. It illustrates its fundamental principles with a variety of examples drawn mainly from astrophysics and geophysics as well as from everyday experience. Prior familiarity with basic thermodynamics and vector calculus is assumed. 
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