Vorticity and Vortex Dynamics

• Main Authors: Wu, Jie-Zhi (Author), Ma, Hui-Yang (Author), Zhou, Ming-De (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Fluids.; Computational intelligence.; Fluid mechanics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Computational Intelligence.

This book is a comprehensive and intensive monograph for scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians, as well as graduate students in fluid dynamics. It starts with a brief review of fundamentals of fluid dynamics, with an innovative emphasis on the intrinsic orthogonal decomposition of fluid d...

Table of Contents:

• Vorticity Dynamics
• Fundamental Processes in Fluid Motion
• Vorticity Kinematics
• Fundamentals of Vorticity Dynamics
• Vorticity Dynamics in Flow Separation
• Vortex Dynamics
• Typical Vortex Solutions
• Separated Vortex Flows
• Core Structure, Vortex Filament, and Vortex System
• Vortical Flow Instability, Transition and Turbulence
• Vortical-Flow Stability and Vortex Breakdown
• Vortical Structures in Transitional and Turbulent Shear Flows
• Special Topics
• Erratum
• Vortical Aerodynamic Force and Moment
• Vorticity and Vortices in Geophysical Flows.