Hydrodynamic Instability and Transition to Turbulence

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Yaglom, Akiva M. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Frisch, Uriel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, 100
• Θέματα: Engineering.; Fluids.; Fluid mechanics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.

This book is a complete revision of the part of Monin & Yaglom's famous two-volume work "Statistical Fluid Mechanics: Mechanics of Turbulence" that deals with the theory of laminar-flow instability and transition to turbulence. It includes the considerable advances in the subject...

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• Contents
•  Foreword by Uriel Frisch
•  In Memory of Akiva M. Yaglom: Obituary by Peter Bradshaw
•  1The equations of fluid dynamics and some of their consequences
•  2 Basic experimental facts and introduction to linear stability theory
•  3 More about linear stability theory
•  studies of the initial-value problem
•  4 Stability to finite disturbances: energy method and Landau's equation
•  5 Further weakly-nonlinear approaches to laminar-flow stability: Blasius boundary layer flow as a paradigm.