Slow Viscous Flow

• Main Authors: Langlois, William E. (Author), Deville, Michel O. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Approximation theory.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Physics.; Approximations and Expansions.; Applications of Mathematics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

Leonardo wrote, 'Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics' ; replace 'Mechanics' by 'Fluid mechanics' and here we are." -    from the Preface to the Second Edition Although the exponential...

Table of Contents:

• Cartesian Tensors
• The Equations of Viscous Flow
• Curvilinear Coordinates
• Exact Solutions to the Equations of Viscous Flow
• Pipe Flow
• Flow Past a Sphere
• Plane Flow
• Rotary Flow
• Lubrication Theory
• Introduction to the Finite Element Method
• Variational Principle, Weak Formulation and Finite Elements
• Stokes Ow and Corner Eddies
• References
• Index.