Essential fluid dynamics : for scientists /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Braithwaite, Jonathan (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: San Rafael [Καλιφόρνια] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2017.
• Σειρά: IOP concise physics.
• Θέματα: Ρευστομηχανική

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 1.1. The fluid approximation
• 1.2. The hydrodynamic equations
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 6. Shocks
• 6.1. Viscous versus pressure gradient force
• 6.2. The jump conditions
• 6.3. Contexts
• 6.4. Hydraulic jumps
• 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
• 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
• 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.