Fluid Dynamics An Introduction /

• Main Author: Rieutord, Michel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Geophysics.; Fluids.; Astrophysics.; Fluid mechanics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

This book is dedicated to readers who want to learn fluid dynamics from the beginning. It assumes a basic level of mathematics knowledge that would correspond to that of most second-year undergraduate physics students and examines fluid dynamics from a physicist’s perspective. As such, the examples...

Table of Contents:

• The foundations of fluid mechanics
• The static of fluids
• Flow of Perfect Fluids
• Flows of incompressible viscous fluids
• Waves in Fluids
• Flows Instabilities
• Thermal Convection
• Rotating Fluids
• Turbulence
• Magnetohydrodynamics
• Beyond Fluid Mechanics
• Complements of mathematics
• The solutions of exercises.