Fluid Dynamics

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a focused account of the principal physical and mathematical ideas at the heart of fluid dynamics. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Eulerian and Lagrangian viewpoints, paths and streamlines;
3. Stream function; 4. Helmholtz decomposition; 5. Sources, sinks and vortices;
6. Doublets and their applications; 7. Complex potential; 8. Accelerating
reference frames; 9. Fluids at rest; 10. Incompressibility and mass
conservation; 11. Stress tensor - existence and symmetry; 12. Stress tensor in
Newtonian fluids; 13. Navier-Stokes equation; 14. Thermodynamic considerations;
15. Energy equation; 16. Complete equations of motion; 17. Applications of
Bernoulli's equation and control volumes; 18. Vorticity; 19. Applications to
viscous flow; 20. Laminar boundary layers; 21. Some applications to convective
heat and mass transfer. 

Autoreninfo

Professor Peter Bernard has 35 years' experience in teaching graduate level fluid mechanics at the University of Maryland. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In addition to his many research articles devoted to the physics and computation of turbulent flow, he is the coauthor of the highly regarded volume Turbulent Flow: Analysis, Measurement and Prediction that has been hailed as 'probably the best for classroom use or private study' (Journal of Fluid Mechanics).