Theoretical Fluid Dynamics

• Main Author: Feldmeier, Achim (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics,
• Subjects: Fluids.; Mechanics.; Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Fluid mechanics.; Astrophysics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Classical Mechanics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Theoretical Astrophysics.

This textbook gives an introduction to fluid dynamics based on flows for which analytical solutions exist, like individual vortices, vortex streets, vortex sheets, accretions disks, wakes, jets, cavities, shallow water waves, bores, tides, linear and non-linear free-surface waves, capillary waves, i...

Table of Contents:

• Description of fluids
• Flows in the complex plane
• Vortices, corner flow and flow past plates
• Jets, wakes and cavities
• Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
• Kinematics of waves
• Shallow water waves
• Free surface waves
• Existence proof for weakly nonlinear water waves
• Sound and internal gravity waves
• Supersonic flow and shocks.